A man who was already incarcerated at the McDonough County Jail in Macomb has been arrested in connection with the death of his cellmate.
The Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Zone 4 arrested Timothy L. Smith, age 40 of Macomb, for first degree murder, a class M felony. The McDonough County Sheriff called ISP DCI agents to conduct a death investigation at the jail on November 8. Read More...
Four months after he was suspended from NBC Nightly News following a reporting scandal, Brian Williams may be giving up his anchor chair for good. According to a new report, Lester Holt is being poised to permanently replace the 56-year-old journalist as anchor of the nightly news program. Brian on NBC Nightly News in November 2009. In February, Brian — who has hosted Nightly News for 10 years — received a six-month suspension from the program after it was revealed he had embellished past reporting on both the Iraq War in 2003 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Read More...
There's a lyric in the chorus of Bailey Zimmerman's new song "Religiously" that's essential to understanding why there's a massive turnover among country music superstars.
No one had heard of the 23-year-old Illinoisan three years ago, and now he's got two chart-topping hits and one of the most anticipated albums of 2023. Morgan Wallen — who Zimmerman is fairly compared to — enjoyed a similar ascent, but Luke Combs went first. The kids (it's not a pejorative) are winning because the kids never tried to replicate their idols. Read More...
