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Fire call at Spencer Tower sends several to the hospital

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UPDATE: The Rock Island Fire Department tells Local 4 that the fire was accidental, caused by smoking materials which was accelerated by oxygen. Damaged was contained to that apartment. ORIGINAL: Several area emergency crews responded to a fire call at Community Home Partners nine-floor Spencer Towers in Rock Island just before 3 p.m. on Monday. The fire was on the sixth floor of the building. Local 4 News, the first station at the scene, witnessed three people being taken away in ambulances. Read More...

Luke Combs Adds New 2020 What You See Is What You Get Tour Dates

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Luke Combs is making a change for the fall leg of his What You See Is What You Get Tour. The singer just added 19 dates and shared that he'll present his music in the round, like Garth Brooks and Carrie Underwood have done recently and George Strait has done for years. The goal is to allow for more fans to see the show, he shares in an Instagram post announcing the tour. Read More...

My Father Was James Brown. I Watched Him Beat My Mother. And Then I Found Myself With Someone Like D

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It’s no secret that James Brown had a dark side. This summer’s biopic Get On Upleft out many of the weird, uncomfortable, and simply violent incidents that Brown instituted or participated in. But it wasn’t until now that we’ve been able to get a look at just how frightening the singer could be. Earlier this month, his daughter Yamma Brown published a memoir titled Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me (co-written with Robin Gaby Fisher) that details her life growing up with her often volatile dad. Read More...