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Photo: Harlem Globetrotters/Youtube The Harlem Globetrotters are known for bringing smiles to fans’ faces, but they took their joyful role to new heights over the weekend when they helped one military mother surprise her family ahead of their game. “I am very joyful and appreciative for the opportunity the Harlem Globetrotters provided to make this surprise so special,” Proctor tells PEOPLE exclusively. “All of the players and staff were great helping make this something that we will never forget....

TheThis Is Uscast recently got a special visit from the newest member of their real-life family! During a virtual appearance onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonMonday,Milo Ventimigliarevealed that costarMandy Moorerecently brought her son,August “Gus” Harrison, whom she welcomed with husbandTaylor Goldsmithon Feb. 20., to the set of the hit NBC series. “It was exciting to see her as a mom,” Ventimiglia, 43, added of his onscreen wife. “We’ve been playing parents for so long but she’s a mom, she’s a real mom....

March 6 marked National Oreo Day, and this year Mindy Kaling went all out in her celebration. The actress took to her Instagram stories to document a taste test of six different Oreo flavors, giving herhonest opinion and ranking of each cookie. Never one to mince words, her reviews werehilarious. Theout-of-the-ordinary flavorsKaling tested were birthday cake, mint, lemon, chocolate peanut butter pie, red velvet and theMost Stuf, in that order, which she washed down with a Cookie Monster mug full of milk....

Brendan McLoughlin and Miranda Lambert.Photo: Courtesy Miranda Lambert Miranda Lambertkept her relationship withnew husbandBrendan McLoughlina secret for over three months — and it all began in New York City, a source tells PEOPLE. The insider confirms that the pair first met on Friday, Nov. 2, when Lambert appeared with herPistol Annies’ bandmatesAshley MonroeandAngaleena Presleyon that day’s episode ofGood Morning America. GMAfilms in Times Square, where McLoughlin, 27, works as apolice officer with the New York Police Department....

Cassidy Rainwater.Photo: Dallas County Sheriff’s Office Murder charges have been filed in Missouri against two men accused of killing and dismemberingCassidy Rainwater. James Phelps, 58, and Timothy Norton, 56, have been in custody since mid-September, charged with first-degree kidnapping, facilitating a felony, inflicting injury and terrorizing. The murder charges were announced on Wednesday. Rainwater was last seen alive in mid-July. According to a statement from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, Norton allegedly “confessed to the murder of Cassidy Rainwater,” who was reported missing on Aug....

Photo: Virginia Amber Alert Virginia State Police issued anAMBER Alertfor a teenage girl last Friday after she disappeared from her bedroomlast Monday. Isabel Hicks was last seen in her home in Louisa County, Virginia. She vanished sometime after 1 a.m. on Monday, October 21. Officials believe she is in the company of 33-year-old Bruce Lynch Jr., of Bumpass, Virginia. “Lynch is believed to be armed with a 9MM and had recent suicidal ideations,” the alert states....

Joshua Nelson with the President’s Scholarship.Photo: City of St. Charles School District/Facebook A Missouri teen who earned a college scholarship is now giving back to others in need to ensure they’ll have the same opportunities to succeed. Joshua Nelson toldGood Morning Americathat he’d been saving up his money so he could pay for college tuition after he graduates from St. Charles West High School this week. As it turned out, Nelson, 18, didn’t need to use his savings because he was awarded the President’s Scholarship from Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO), where he’ll be attending in the fall,GMAreported....

Missy Elliott.Photo: Erika Goldring/GettyMissy Elliottcredits observing her mom’s struggles with providing her with the necessary push to become successful in her career path.The 2023Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee, 51, revealed the key to her success on Sunday to a fan who was wondering on Twitter about what initially fueled her remarkable persistence in a tough industry.“I wanna know like what inspired her and what was her drive to remain persistent in a male dominated industry at the time,” the fanwrote, tagging Elliott in the query....

Mitchell Tenpenny and Meghan Patrick.Photo: Hardcastle’s PhotographyYou can take getting engaged off his “Bucket List!“On Wednesday night, country starMitchell Tenpennyproposed to his longtime girlfriend, fellow singer-songwriterMeghan Patrick, atLosers Bar & Grillin Nashville, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal.“I met Meghan here so it was the perfect place — and hey, I got engaged ‘at the end of a bar!'” Tenpenny jokes, alluding to the title of his song with fellow hitmakerChris Young.He tells PEOPLE he decided to propose this week because “I wanted both of our families to be here....

Kevin Strickland.Photo: Courtesy Midwest Innocence Project A Missouri man who has served more than 42 years in prison for a triple-murder should be set free because the evidence used to convict him doesn’t add up, says the prosecutor whose office put the man behind bars. “All those who have reviewed the evidence in recent months agree – Kevin Strickland deserves to be exonerated,” Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said ina statementreleased Monday....

Heather Nicole Adkins.Photo: Scott County Detention Center An Indiana mother is accused of abandoning her 5-year-old son in Ohio before fleeing to Kentucky — and she said in a jailhouse interview that she did it to save the child from her. Heather Nicole Adkins, 32, was arrested in Georgetown, Ky., on Saturday evening. She has been charged with felony counts of child endangerment and kidnapping. A driver in Cincinnati spotted the boy — who is nonverbal and has autism — walking alone down the street....

Michelle Stani.Photo: Facebook Less than a month after welcoming her fourth child, a beloved New Jersey mother died of COVID-19. Michelle Stani, 37, contracted the virus in December — and it “hit her hard very fast,” her aunt Tina Stani, who said she did not know if Michelle had been vaccinated, toldThe New York Post. Michelle went on to welcome her fourth child, son Jayden, on Dec. 24, according to a Facebook post from her partner Frank Allen....

Photo: GoFundMe A woman whoonce decided to decline medical treatmentfor cancer while she was pregnant with her daughter, has died. As the pregnancy progressed, so did Nuttall’s tumor, which grew so large that at 36 weeks gestation in March 2014, it was decided doctors would cut out the tumor and perform a caesarean section to deliver her daughter, Penelope, all at once, according to the GoFundMe. “They kept her awake so she could see her own beautiful but small, daughter, Penelope, arrive into the world,” wrote Sproates on the donation page, “Only to be put to sleep and have the cancer removed....