How do I get rid of unwanted items listed on my Finder's places list? my finder

On the left side of my Finder window I have a blue background column with a list of items under "DEVICES", "PLACES" AND "SEARCH FOR".  Somehow I got two items stuck in my list under "PLACES".  One is a scan.jpeg.  The other is an iTunes file.  I have no idea how I did this.  It doesn't seem to affect anything but it is annoying to me to have it there.  Is there any way to delete them from this list?  I have tried to do this every way I can think of and nothing works.  As I wrote this, I thought I would try one last time.  Finally was able to get a right click drop down for the iTunes file which gave me the option of removing it from the list.  The other is still there.  It will not highlight.  I can drag it away from the list, but it won't land anywhere except a different place in the "PLACES" list.  Any ideas? 

Hey, just saw the trick about holding the Command key down while dragging the file out.  Wonderful to see that "poof" and no more file.  Would still like to know how I could have gotten these [as someone said "empty shells"] there, so I don't do it again.

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