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Q&A: Google to dig deeper into users’ lives

By MACscr ⋅ February 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

If you're amazed — and maybe even a little alarmed — about how much Google seems to know about you, brace yourself. Beginning Thursday, Google will operate under a streamlined privacy policy that enables the Internet's most powerful company to dig even deeper into the lives of its more than 1 billion users.

Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan headed to Peoria

By MACscr ⋅ February 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Jason Aldean will perform at 7:30 p.m. May 10 at the Peoria Civic Center Arena, and he’ll bring fellow country star Luke Bryan along for the show. The Civic Center has not yet released ticket prices or on-sale information for the "My Kinda Party" tour. Aldean, a Georgia native, released the album "My [...]

Monkees singer Davy Jones dies in Florida at 66

By MACscr ⋅ February 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Davy Jones, the diminutive heartthrob singer who rocketed to the top of the 1960s music charts by beckoning millions of adoring fans with the catchy refrains of The Monkees, died Wednesday. He was 66. His publicist, Helen Kensick, confirmed that Jones died of a heart attack near his home in Indiantown. Jones complained of [...]

God, family make appearance on Oscar red carpet

By MACscr ⋅ February 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

It wasn't hard to spot Elvis Presley's old co-star on the Oscars red carpet. She was the one wearing the nun's habit.

New Oscar fashion stars include Mara, Stone and Chastain

By MACscr ⋅ February 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

There were many new fashion faces on the red carpet at the 84th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night, but they brought with them a lot of old Hollywood glamour.

Billy Crystal returns to host a winning Oscarcast

By MACscr ⋅ February 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Perhaps the biggest nail-biter of Oscar night stirred no suspense at all: "The Artist," however unlikely as an art-house upstart, still seemed destined to win as Best Picture.

Wildlife Prairie State Park opens for season

By MACscr ⋅ February 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Sunday marked Wildlife Prairie State Park's opening day for the season, and Robin Moore couldn't have been happier with her first visit to "a little treasure in the Midwest," as she later described it. Kevin Moore had been planning a surprise for his wife, Robin, for a month, and all she was told heading [...]

Actress Meryl Streep donates $10,000 to U.S. school

By MACscr ⋅ February 28, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Meryl Streep has donated $10,000 to a charter school in the struggling Rhode Island city of Central Falls after a plug from fellow actress and hometown favorite Viola Davis.

Jaleel ‘Urkel’ White, Gladys Knight among new ‘Dancing’ cast

By MACscr ⋅ February 28, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Urkel, the Empress of Soul and one of the Green Bay Packers are waltzing onto "Dancing With the Stars." "Family Matters" actor Jaleel White, singer Gladys Knight and National Football League player Donald Driver will be among the 12 celebrity contestants on the next season of the ABC dancing competition. Other famous faces [...]

Jennifer Hudson on witness list for upcoming murder trial

By MACscr ⋅ February 28, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson is on the witness list for the upcoming Chicago trial of the man accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in 2008, according to court documents.