REPLAY: 2012 Blue Nose Marathon
Woman missing from forensic hospital found
Family farm on the brink
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Warm weather played havoc with records at the 9th annual Bluenose Marathon. (ERIC WYNNE / Staff)
REPLAY: 2012 Blue Nose Marathon
By MONTY MOSHER Sports Reporter

Record numbers got to giv’er in the sunshine at the ninth annual Scotiabank Blue Nose Marathon.

More than 8,300 runners took part...

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Amy Elizabeth Ogilvie was missing from the East Coast Forensic Hospital for more than two weeks. She was found by Halifax Regional Police near the facility on Saturday, and is now back at the Burnside facility. (Handout)
Woman missing from forensic hospital found
By KELLY SHIERS Staff Reporter

A patient missing for two weeks from the East Coast Forensic Hospital is back at the Burnside facility.

Amy Elizabeth Ogilvie, 21, was...

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Linden Leas farm has had its loans called in by the Farm Loan Board. Some of the three generations of Fosters who rely on the farm, including, from left, Olivia, Frank, James and Rob, look out over their 1,000 acres of pasture land. (AARON BESWICK/Truro Bureau)
Family farm on the brink
By AARON BESWICK Truro Bureau

LINDEN — Linden Leas Ltd., one of the province’s largest cattle farms, is on the brink of foreclosure.

“We’re...

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he potential buyer of their idled Point Tupper pulp and paper mill, Pacific West Commercial Corp., has told some senior former employees that they won't be offered jobs if the plant reopens. (AARON BESWICK / Truro Bureau / File)
NewPage owner may bypass senior workers for recall
By MONICA GRAHAM

Some former senior employees of the NewPage paper mill in Point Tupper won’t be returning to work if the idle plant reopens.

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Victoria Bertling with her dog Roxie at her Halifax home Thursday. Bertling recently learned that she will no longer qualifiy for the use of a doula in her child's birth. (TED PRITCHARD / Staff)
Doula demand outstrips supply
By LINDSAY JONES Special

When Victoria Bertling gives birth this summer, she had hoped to have a doula at her side. But an overwhelming demand for volunteer doula...

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Runners take part in the Blue Nose Marathon in Halifax on Sunday. (ADRIEN VECZAN / Staff)
Highlights from 2012 Blue Nose Marathon
We've collected some of the best pictures and comments from today's 2012 Blue Nose Marathon. Check them out:
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About 3,500 kids participated in this year's Doctors Nova Scotia Youth Run in the annual Blue Nose Marathon in Halifax on Saturday. (INGRID BULMER/Staff)
'Got my nose blue,' youth runner exults
The pitter-patter of little feet pounded through Halifax streets Saturday morning. Thousands of little feet.
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Average: 4.3 (6 votes)
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Premier Darrell Dexter looks on as Finance Minister Graham Steele delivers the Nova Scotia government's 2012 budget at Province House April 3. TIM KROCHAK / Staff / File)
Legislative scorecard: Hope on tax, lost on power
HOW IS Darrell Dexter’s government doing at the end of the spring session of the legislature?
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Average: 2.3 (9 votes)
Rene Gallant, vice-president of regulatory affairs for Nova Scotia Power, walks by an overhead slide before a news conference May 8 on the utility's plan for a rate stabilization process for 2013-2014. (ERIC WYNNE / Staff / File)
Public takeover won’t solve NSP woes
In the smouldering aftermath of Nova Scotia Power’s application for two rate increases, there’s talk of turning it into the People’...
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A Canadian Pacific Railway employee walks along the side of a locomotive in a marshalling yard in Calgary, Wednesday. (THE CANADIAN PRESS0
CP Rail workers give 72-hour strike notice
CALGARY — Unionized workers at Canadian Pacific Railway have turned up the heat at the bargaining table, serving 72-hour strike notice.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday. (FACEBOOK)
Zuckerberg status update: Married
SAN FRANCISCO — For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week — from birthday, to IPO, to I DO.
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High-wire act of NSP, paper mill should end  
Air Canada, pilots head to arbitration
Black market cash swap grows
Facebook just barely ekes out IPO price
Chase’s position tough to gauge
India attracts foreign cash
Sports
New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist stops a shot on the goal by New Jersey Devils' Ryan Carter during the third period of Game 3 Saturday in Newark, N.J. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Lundqvist sparkles in Rangers’ victory
NEWARK, N.J. — In his latest playoff gem, Henrik Lundqvist had little time to do more than stop every breakaway or 2-on-1 attempt New Jersey...
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Dartmouth paddler Ben Russell has been eliminated from contention for a spot on Canada's Olympic sprint canoe-kayak team.
Bittersweet bronze: Dartmouth paddler’s Olympic hopes dashed
Ben Russell’s Saturday proved to be a mix of jubilation and disappointment.
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Blue Nose champ out with injury
Knights upset Sea Dogs at Memorial Cup
I’ll Have Another has two now
Coyotes face grim odds against Kings
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Arts & Life
Lucas Lange, Nova Scotia's only professional alpaca shearer, takes the wool off an animal at Rocaro Alpacas in Georgefield, Hants County, on Saturday. Katharina Mueller holds the alpaca still. (PETER PARSONS / Staff)
SLIDESHOW: Alpaca: A shearing yarn of spit, fibre
THERE’S MUCH TO LEARN during alpaca shearing day at Rocaro Alpacas in Georgefield, Hants County.
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Actor Jackie Chan poses for portraits at the American Pavilion during the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, on Saturday. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Jackie Chan says Chinese Zodiac his last action hero role
CANNES, France — Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most...
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