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From The Associated Press

Morgan Freeman is doing well after surgery to reconnect nerves and repair damage to his left arm and hand following a car wreck Sunday night, his publicist said Tuesday.

The surgery Monday night “lasted approximately four and a half hours including recovery and he is in good spirits and was visiting family members this morning,” Donna Lee, the actor’s publicist, said in a statement.

Freeman, 71, and Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis, Tenn., were taken to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis following the accident on a dark stretch of rural Mississippi Delta highway in Tallahatchie County. The accident w3as near the small town of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a home with his wife.

A rental truck containing Iggy Pop and the Stooges’ equipment was stolen after a concert in Montreal. Stooges road manager Eric Fischer says the 15-foot truck stolen Monday contained all the group’s instruments and stage gear. He tells the Detroit Free Press the lost items are worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Fischer says the Stooges will still make their scheduled Wednesday gig in Toronto using rented and donated equipment.