Both Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, contracted COVID-19 earlier this year and recovered.
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Family of girl killed by drunk driver who died 50 years later in hit-and-run finally gets an apology
‘The Hero of Goodall Park,’ a documentary airing Tuesday on ESPN, tells the story of Douglas Parkhurst, who was killed by a rampaging driver in Sanford in 2018, five years after confessing to hitting a 4-year-old girl in upstate New York in 1968.
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Book by Trump’s niece to be published 2 weeks earlier than planned
The book will be published on July 14 due to intense interest in it, the publisher announced Monday.
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Country rocker and fiddler Charlie Daniels dies at age 83
Country music firebrand and fiddler Charlie Daniels, who had a hit with “Devil Went Down to Georgia,” has died at age 83
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State pulls plug on music festival at Brunswick campground
Promoters hoped to win state approval for Summer Jam Camp Out 2020 by promising to spread people out among campsites to minimize large gatherings. The state rejected that idea.
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Eight Maine arts organizations each to receive a $50,000 coronavirus aid grant
The National Endowment for the Arts announced that 855 nonprofit arts organizations nationwide will receive a total of $45 million through the CARES Act.
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Carl Reiner, beloved creator of ‘Dick Van Dyke Show,’ dies at 98
Reiner mastered a genial but sophisticated brand of humor that others emulated.
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Artist looks to honor El Faro victims with sculpture in Rockland
Warren sculptor and Maine Maritime graduate Jay Sawyer begins a campaign to raise money for a memorial in Rockland Harbor to victims of the tragedy at sea.
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How Maine crime writers are rethinking the way they portray police
The current calls for police reform and ends to racism have prompted Maine writers of crime novels to rethink, and in some cases change, their work.
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After helping other artists top the charts, Maine native Amy Allen to release first single
The singer-songwriter’s ‘Queen of Silver Linings’ will be released Wednesday on Warner Records.