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PEMBERTON, B.C. – What police are calling a suspicious death at the Pemberton Music Festival, north of Vancouver, has prompted concerns about security.

DETROIT – Workers and retirees approved pension cuts in Detroit’s bankruptcy by a landslide, the city reported Monday, a crucial step to emerging from the largest municipal insolvency in U.S. history.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – “Downton Abbey” will be back for its fifth season on Jan. 4, but the return date for another hit PBS series, “Sherlock,” is up in the air, PBS chief executive Paula Kerger said Tuesday.

SAN DIEGO – Like Batman responding to a beaming Bat signal in the sky, fans are streaming to San Diego for the 45th annual Comic-Con pop culture extravaganza.

GARY, Ind. – Plans are in the works to name a school after Michael Jackson in the late pop star’s Indiana hometown.

TORONTO – A surprise trek to the far East did nothing to displace the direction of “The Amazing Race Canada,” with the dominant Olympians Meaghan Mikkelson and Natalie Spooner skating to yet another first-place finish in an episode that became a clash between two teams lost in the supermarket.

PHILADELPHIA – Rock star Jon Bon Jovi will be honoured with an award named for an opera singer.

SAN DIEGO – “Under the Dome” is broadening its scope.

SAN DIEGO – Fans squealed and screamed, and some shed tears at Thursday’s Comic-Con panel for MTV’s hit series “Teen Wolf.”

SAN DIEGO – For the human stars of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” it’s all about Michelangelo.

SAN DIEGO – Stan Lee is missing in action at Comic-Con.
PENTICTON, B.C. – A major music festival scheduled for next weekend in Penticton has been dealt a big blow.

WASHINGTON – Singer Linda Ronstadt got the answer to that question she’s been asking for decades: “When Will I Be Loved?”
MONTREAL – Patti-Kay Hamilton of Fort Smith, N.W.T., has won this year’s English-language CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Lady Gaga is a bona fide pop star, but the singer says recording jazz music was easier than pop.

TORONTO – “Girls” star and creator Lena Dunham will give a sneak peek of her new book at Toronto’s JFL42 comedy festival in September.

TORONTO – Veteran mixed martial artist Nick Diaz says he is ready to return to the cage despite the fact that he does not enjoy fighting.
TORONTO – His family isn’t too happy about it but former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva says he can’t wait to return to the cage after a lengthy layoff from a gruesome leg injury.
TORONTO – Toronto’s Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival culminates today with its annual parade, which typically bustles with colourful costumes, upbeat music and dancing in the streets.
PENTICTON, B.C. – A 24-year-old woman from Leduc, Alberta, has died after a suspected drug overdose at a major music festival in Penticton.

PENTICTON, B.C. – Officers issued a warning about drug use after the early Saturday morning death of a concertgoer at the Boonstock Music and Arts Festival in Penticton.

LONDON – Sylvester Stallone may come across as the ultimate guy’s guy. But he says action stars like him are “the hardest characters to sell” to other men.

Where fashion goes, decor follows. And this fall, the fashionistas are inspired by Scotland.
Veteran Canadian lightweight Mark Bocek, who used to school the UFC’s ownership in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, has retired from mixed martial arts fighting.