Team USA at the Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony.Photo: Catherine Ivill/Getty Images That’s all, folks. Clad in their matching red, white and blue Ralph Lauren uniforms, Team USA’s athletes gathered for selfies as the crowd looked on, some showing off their new hardware before retreating to their seats. Elana Meyers Taylor.Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony.Elana Meyers Taylor.PHOTO: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty ImagesBeijing Olympics Closing Ceremony.PHOTO: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Elana Meyers Taylor.Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony....

Photo: Courtesy John Ramirez John Ramirez vividly remembers the day almost three years ago when doctors told him his teenage daughter Leanna had a rare and potentially deadly brain tumor. “It was an out-of-body experience,” the 48-year-old father tells PEOPLE, describing how “severe symptoms” pushed Leanna, now 18, to tears in the emergency room. “She’d been having migraines for weeks,” John says. “They did the MRI that showed the tumor at her brain stem....

Melody Ivie, Gwendolyn Schofield.Photo: Farmington Police Department During a Tuesday press conference, police confirmed Shirley Volta, 79, Gwendolyn Schofield, 97, and Melody Ivie, 73, died while driving through a Farmington, N.M., neighborhood. Ivie was the daughter of Schofield, say police, and the pair were in the same vehicle when they were fatally shot. “This is such a tragic event, it’s overwhelming to the senses,” Deputy Chief Kyle Dowdy told reporters....

Roy Sewell Jr.Photo: Tazewell Police Department/Facebook A 27-year-old firefighter from Tennessee died after he was involved in a rollover crash in his fire truck while responding to a call on Monday. North Tazewell Volunteer Fire Department Captain Roy Sewell Jr., “was responding to a request for a landing zone” for a medical helicopter on Cedar Fork Road when the rollover crash occurred, according to a statement from theTazewell Police Department(TPD)....

Caleb Farley.Photo:Wesley Hitt/Getty Wesley Hitt/Getty Tennessee Titans cornerback Caleb Farley’s father is dead and another person was injured when the NFL player’s home in North Carolina exploded overnight, leaving the multi-million dollar lakeside house reduced to rubble.Kent Greene, the director of the Iredell County Emergency Management, tells PEOPLE that Farley, 24, was not at the suburban Mooresville, North Carolina home when the explosion occurred. Farley’s father, Robert Farley, died in the explosion, Greene confirmed....

Joe Gorgais rooting for his sisterTeresa Giudice‘s marriage. TheReal Housewives of New Jersey‘s husbandJoe Giudiceis currentlyfighting his deportation orderfrom Italy, where hewas sent after being released from ICE custodyon Oct. 11. Teresa, meanwhile, remains in New Jersey with the couple’s four daughters: Gia, 18, Gabriella, 15, Milania, 13, and Audriana, 10. Speaking toTooFab.comwhile out in Los Angeles over the weekend, Gorga and his wifeMelissasaid they were hopeful Teresa and Joe would stay together despite the challenges of living so far apart....

Teresa Taylor in 1991.Photo:Orion Classics/courtesy Everett Collection Orion Classics/courtesy Everett Collection Teresa Taylor, a longtime drummer for the punk-rock band Butthole Surfers, has died. She was 60. “Teresa Taylor passed away peacefully this weekend after a long battle with lung disease. She will live in our hearts forever. RIP, dear friend,” the band wrote in a statement. Her partner Cheryl Curtice also shared the newson Facebook, writing that Taylor “passed away clean and sober, peacefully in her sleep....

Terrence Howardis standing behind Jussie Smollett following hisEmpirecostar’sarrest for allegedly staginga fake hate attack last month. “All your lil homies got you… We love the hell outta you,” Howard, 49, captioned the post, adding a heart emoji. In the video, Smollett asks, “How many teeth does he have?” before tickling the laughing child. The clip found support in actressGabourey Sidibe, who commented with three red heart emojis, andTaye Diggs, who wrote, “Atta boy!...

Guyger, 31, who is white, faces 99 years behind bars as the conviction phase of her trial resumes on Wednesday. She was found guilty on Wednesday ofkilling her 26-year-old neighboron another floor, who is black, inside his own apartment, claiming she mistook him for someone burglarizing her own home. According to WFAA, jurors heard prosecutors present text messages from Jan. 15, 2018, as Dallas officers were assigned to the Martin Luther King Jr....

Texas capitol.Photo: Matt Barnes Photography/Getty Images Texas is poised to become the largest state in the country to eliminate the funding of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (also known as DEI) programs at public universities. The Texas Tribunereports that lawmakers came to an agreement Saturday to advance legislation that would ban DEI offices, programs and training at publicly funded universities. The measure further stipulates that all hiring at public universities must be “color-blind and sex-neutral" and that schools cannot create diversity offices or hire employees to conduct DEI work....

Photo: Everett It’s been 18 years since theLeonardo DiCaprio-led dramaThe Beachhit theaters. But apparently its popularity was such that over the years, millions of tourists have flooded to the actualThailand beach used in filming — destroying its coral reefs and sea life in the process. In June, Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservationordered that Maya Bayon Phi Phi Leh island in the Andaman Sea shut down for four months so it could recover from the environmental damage from tourists, but on Monday, the department ordered an indefinite closure,CNN reports....

01of 21 Brie Bella and Nikki Bella.James White “People are going to think that’s a joke. We both are shocked,” Brie said about getting pregnant at the same time. “People are going to think we planned it, but you can’t really plan pregnancy!” While this is Nikki’s first child, motherhood is “something I’ve dreamed of my whole life,” she shared. And she’s gotten some great practice being an aunt to Brie’s 2-year-old daughter, Birdie....

Photo:People / Daisy Rodriguez People / Daisy Rodriguez Did your loved ones miss a few of yourwish list itemsthis holiday season? Treat yourself to some retail therapy. The after-Christmas sales are on now, reaching the deepest discounts of the season. For a cheap thrill, check out our list of deals under $25, with finds up to 65 percent off from Amazon, Target, Lululemon, Nordstrom, and Spanx. We found select Yankee Candle scents for $17, a cute belt bag marked down to $16, and some great deals on beauty gift sets....