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Best-Sellers: ‘Horse,’ ‘Atomic Habits’

August 14, 2022August 12, 2022

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

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Police end investigation into Anne Heche car crash

by Associated Press August 13, 2022August 13, 2022

Detectives say narcotics were found in a blood sample taken from her.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Nation & World, News

Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York

by JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press August 12, 2022August 12, 2022

Rushdie’s 1988 novel, ‘The Satanic Verses,’ was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims, who saw a character as an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, among other objections.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News

Anne Heche remains on life support for organ donation, family says

by Richard Winton, Alexandra Del Rosario, Summer Lin and Gregory Yee Los Angeles Times August 12, 2022August 12, 2022

On the morning of Aug. 5, Heche’s car smashed into a house in a neighborhood in west Los Angeles and a fire erupted with the car embedded inside the home.

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Cancellation of Atlanta festival sparks new fight over guns

by SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press August 11, 2022August 11, 2022

Some are convinced the city will lose more performances on public land as organizers learn that state law makes it nearly impossible for them to stop people from carrying guns among the crowds.

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Imagine Dragons hit road, mixing light, dark

by MARK KENNEDY Associated Press August 10, 2022

The band is the first in history to have four certified diamond singles.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News

Houshang Ebtehaj, prominent Iranian poet, dies at 94

by AMIR VAHDAT Associated Press August 10, 2022August 11, 2022

Ebtehaj contributed to the popularity of the ghazal – a traditional form of Persian poetry set to music that expresses the writer’s feelings, especially about love, with moving intensity.