Side bar items won't delete

I've got several items in my side bar that I can't get rid of. I've tried the CMD-drag and they won't go away. I've also tried deleting from the user library com.apple.finder.plist to no avail. Any other ideas?

Read here and use the OnyX cache cleaning routine
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3046

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