Update: ‘Dilbert’ dropped from syndication as Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, other newspapers cancel strip over cartoonist’s racist rant

Many newspapers stop publishing the long-running comic strip after its creator called Black Americans a "hate group."

In photos: Artist sets out to re-create scene from Marsden Hartley painting

Vermont painter Eric Aho had planned the community ice-cutting event last year, but the weather conditions weren't right until last week.

Durham man’s big-name musician friends turn up for benefit concert

After spending years on the road with the Grateful Dead and Blues Traveler, Greg Martens now organizes annual benefit concerts to fight hunger in Maine, featuring musician friends he met along the way.

Met Opera marks first year of Ukraine war with concert

Viola Davis, Paul Simon among finalists for audiobook awards

The nominations for the annual Audie Awards handed out by the Audio Publishers Association were announced Thursday.

Harvey Weinstein gets 16 years for rape, sexual assault

The sentence comes on top of the more than 20 years the 70-year-old Weinstein has left to serve for a similar 2020 conviction in New York.

R. Kelly avoids lengthy add-on to 30-year prison sentence

A federal judge has handed singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison sentence for his Chicago convictions of child pornography and the enticement of minors for sex

Pick the winners in our 2023 Oscar Poll

Who do you think will take home the Academy Awards for best actor, best director, best picture?

Huey ‘Piano’ Smith, session man and hitmaker, dead at 89

Smith was one of the last survivors of an extraordinary scene of musicians and songwriters who helped make New Orleans a fundamental influence on rock ‘n’ roll.

Leiji Matsumoto, known for anti-war anime, space tales, dies at 85

His manga works 'Galaxy Express 999' and 'Space Pirate Captain Herlock' were adapted into television anime series in the 1970s and became huge hits in and outside Japan.