Police say they built the case on video showing Banes in a crosswalk in Manhattan when she was hit by the scooter after its rider ran a red light.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts, entertainment and books news from the Sun Journal.
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Romance fiction award withdrawn for controversial novel
Karen Witemeyer’s ‘At Love’s Command’ focuses on a veteran who participated in the 1890 massacre of Lakota Indians at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
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Meghan McCain makes low-key exit from ‘The View’
ABC has not said who will replace her in the show’s ‘conservative’ chair.
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Trey Parker, Matt Stone sign $900 million deal ensuring 14 ‘South Park’ movies
Two of the movies are promised in 2021.
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Maine’s new poet laureate is a small-town librarian who’s written 2 books of poems
Julia Bouwsma is a farmer and director of the Webster Library in Kingfield, and teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington.
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Rihanna is a billionaire now, but not because of her music
At 33, with $1.7 billion, she is the wealthiest female musical artist in the world, and the second-richest woman in entertainment after Oprah.
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Dolly Parton invested royalties from Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Black community
Fueling the investment was the multimillion-dollar payday she earned from Houston’s cover of one of Parton’s most successful songwriting credits.
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Kathy Griffin undergoing surgery for lung cancer
The comedian says part of her left lung will be removed and doctors are optimistic about her recovery.
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With feelings of triumph and trepidation, Maine audiences return
Fans enthusiastically welcome back live music to Portland, but many also worry their celebrations will be short-lived because of the latest coronavirus surge.
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Bob Odenkirk says he had a ‘small heart attack’ and will be back
Representatives for the star of ‘Better Call Saul’ had said only that he had a ‘heart related incident’ and was stable in an Albuquerque hospital after collapsing on the show’s set.