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NEW YORK (AP) — The physical pain of nearly dying when shrapnel from a roadside bomb in Iraq tore through his head 17 years ago was hard enough for ABC newsman Bob Woodruff. Mentally, it was even worse.

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday against former Grammy Awards CEO Neil Portnow, accusing him of a 2018 sexual assault, and against the Recording Academy for negligence.

TORONTO — When Donald Shebib got behind the camera for his 1970 drama "Goin' Down the Road," the director's modest expectations couldn't have foreseen its regard as one of the country's greatest films.

WOLSELEY, Sask. — Members of Shania Twain's concert production crew were on a bus that crashed Wednesday morning on an icy highway in southeast Saskatchewan.

PELLA, Iowa (AP) — Voters in a small Iowa city narrowly decided not to support giving their City Council more power over their local library.

Quick: What’s a good adjective for Nicolas Cage’s screen presence? Mercurial, perhaps? Volcanic? Volatile? How about mundane, schlubby, average? Not the page we’d think to turn to in our Roget’s Thesaurus.

SASKATOON — A longtime radio host in Saskatchewan is stepping away from the microphone. John Gormley announced that his last day on air will be Nov. 24.

NEW YORK (AP) — The “Macbeth”-inspired immersive theater experience "Sleep No More" that is hosted in three empty, hulking warehouse spaces in downtown New York City will say goodbye early next year on its 5,000 performance.

OTTAWA — A community art space on Newfoundland and Labrador's Bonavista Peninsula has won the $50,000 Lacey Prize. The 2023 jury lauded Union House Arts in Port Union, N.L., for its "ability to produce programs that affect close communities.

TORONTO — Anuja Varghese's debut short story collection has won the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, an honour she's calling a triumph for LGBTQ+ and racialized books during a time when literature from marginalized writers is being cens