The singer has been charged with child pornography, enticement of minors for sex and fixing his 2008 trial.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
South Portland artist wins Florence + the Machine design contest
Artist Maura Gaven’s digital illustration was inspired by medieval art.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Health, Maine
Maine playwright channels message about addiction into a musical
Michael Gorman lost his older brother to a drug overdose in 1998 and has been writing about addiction ever since. His latest production will be staged at Augusta’s Colonial Theater this weekend.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Got Tix: Where to find concert tickets to upcoming shows
See progressive Francophone folk act Le Vent du Nord in Boothbay Harbor.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business, Nation & World, News
Japanese business pioneer, philanthropist Kazuo Inamori dies at 90
Inamori was the founder of Japanese ceramics and electronics maker Kyocera.
Posted inBooks, Nation & World, News, Schools and Education
Judge thwarts Virginia Republicans’ effort to limit sale of books at Barnes & Noble
The 2 books at the heart of the suit are Maia Kobabe’s ‘Gender Queer,’ a memoir about identifying as nonbinary, and Sarah J. Maas’s ‘A Court of Mist and Fury,’ a fantasy novel that depicts a dark fairy romance.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
The Monkees’ last-living member sues FBI for secret files on the band
That heavily redacted file from 1967 was declassified about a decade ago. But now, the last surviving member of the American rock group, Micky Dolenz, wants to know more.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Tank defies hearing loss in making final album
The R&B star revealed last year he was suddenly going deaf in his right ear.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Prosecutors rest in R. Kelly’s trial-fixing, child porn case
The highlight of the prosecutors’ case was testimony by a 37-year-old woman who described Kelly sexually abusing her hundreds of times starting in 1998 when she was 14.
Posted inNew England, Religion and Values
Judge: Congregation at oldest U.S. synagogue can stay, for now
The New York owners of a 250-year-old synagogue in Rhode Island deny trying to evict its tenants.