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NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� George Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker who with manic affection captured the timeless comedy of dogs and cats and the human beings somehow in charge of their well being, has died. He was 96.

鈥淭here Is So Much Here,鈥� Glen Phillips (Compass Records) The son of a physicist, Glen Phillips has always been a cerebral singer-songwriter, and his new solo album is a thoughtful, tuneful collection of contemplations on life鈥檚 simple charms.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 鈥� Workers in central Florida鈥檚 tourism industry are pushing to raise their minimum wage to at least $18 an hour, arguing that rising rents and inflation have cut into their ability to make ends meet.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� CNBC is canceling Shepard Smith's nightly newscast after two years, with its new president saying he wanted to focus on the network's core strength of business news.

The story of Twitter's blue checkmarks 鈥� a simple verification system that's come to be viewed as an elite status symbol 鈥� began with some high-profile impersonations, just as the site began taking off in 2008 and '09.

ROME (AP) 鈥� Two weeks after a New York jury sided with Kevin Spacey in a sexual abuse lawsuit, an Italian film museum announced Thursday that the actor would receive a lifetime achievement award and teach a master class there early next year.

Jann Arden has range. In the last several decades, the multiple Juno Award-winning singer, author and actress released 15 albums, found time to write five books, and became the self-deprecating subject of her own CTV television series, 鈥淛ann.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� If you went missing, how much press would you be 鈥渨orth鈥�? The Columbia Journalism Review unveiled a tool on Thursday that calculates the number of stories your disappearance would net, based on demographics.

Model, actress and environmental crusader Pamela Anderson is on a mission of rehabilitation. Reached at her home in Ladysmith, B.C.

HAVANA (AP) 鈥� Two former beauty queens, Fabiola Valent铆n of Puerto Rico and Mariana Valera of Argentina, announced this week that they had secretly married.