Honesty is what makes the best Eric Church songs stand out from others on the radio. The "Springsteen" singer only sings what he knows, but as he's grown and matured, that has become a long list. Often this means his music is packed full of raw, unedited emotion — just how his fans like it. Other times he's fully produced, leaning heavy into the fringes of country music and beyond as he tells his stories of love, loss, disappointment, regret and rage.

No one was injured early Friday in a house fire in Burlington that displaced eight people. Shortly before 2:30 a.m. Friday, the Burlington Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire in the 100 block of North Marshall Street in Burlington. Air temperature was -7 degrees, a news release says. Firefighters found flames and smoke showing from a two-unit apartment house. Occupants were in the process of evacuating the house.

BooksObituaryJack Higgins obituaryBestselling author who achieved huge success with his 1975 wartime thriller The Eagle Has LandedUnder his own and several other names, including Jack Higgins, Harry Patterson had published 35 thrillers before, in his mid-40s, he hit the jackpot with The Eagle Has Landed (1975), an instant bestseller in the US, which is said to have sold more than 50m copies worldwide. Its success carried Higgins, who has died aged 92, into tax exile in Jersey, to a mansion overlooking St Aubin’s Bay, from where he was to write a popular thriller almost annually, his books guaranteed to find a place in every airport departure lounge in the world.

Molly Ringwald's career was launched by iconic writer and director John Hughes, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have criticisms of his work. The actress -- who took the lead in Hughes' films "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Sixteen Candles" -- analyzed Hughes' body of work in the context of the #MeToo movement in a new essay for The New Yorker. She shared a number of criticisms of his inappropriate sense of humor she read in his scripts or saw depicted in his movies, but one "

Make-up artist to the stars Charlotte Tilbury has shared a series of pictures showing Poppy Delevingne's bridal beauty look.Charlotte, who was charged with helping model Poppy look every inch the blushing bride for her wedding, posted photos of her getting ready for her big day at Claridge's Hotel.One photo showed the 27-year-old in her bespoke Chanel couture gown, which was adorned with lace flowers and jewels, holding a make-up compact while loooking into the camera lens.