Oskar Lindblom.Photo: Len Redkoles/NHLI via Getty A 23-year-old player for the Philadelphia Flyers will miss the season after being diagnosed with a rare cancer that will require lifelong monitoring after intense chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Oskar Lindblom, a forward for the Flyers, waswith his teammates last weekwhen he was diagnosed withEwing’s sarcoma, a type of cancer that occurs in bones or in the soft tissue around the bones, according to Mayo Clinic....

Philip Seymour Hoffmanwould have turned 51 on Monday, July 23. In honor of the late actor’s birthday, below is PEOPLE’s cover story from 2014 about his shocking death at 46. He was also troubled. Locals in his West Village neighborhood observed the actor during both happy and seemingly darker private moments. “He’d go over to Oliver’s restaurant with his son Cooper. They’d have lunch, and you’d see them talking and laughing for hours at a time,” says the neighborhood source....

Photo: Getty Images/iStockphotoA homeless man in Phoenix is being cheered as a hero after he saved a family of three and their two dogs from an apartment fire earlier in the week.Claudia Jimenez toldCBS Newsthat she awoke Thursday morning to find her apartment building engulfed in a fire. Jimenez shortly thereafter discovered her front door was blocked, so there was no simple way out for herself, her two small children and their two dogs....

Popular wedding-planning platformsPinterestandThe Knot Worldwideare taking a stand against using former slave plantations as wedding venues. Spokespersons for both Pinterest, a social media platform that gives couples ceremony and reception inspiration, and The Knot Worldwide, a site dedicated to wedding ideas, products and services, will stop promoting content that “romanticizes” these Southern venues,BuzzFeed Newsreported. Civil rights advocacy nonprofitColor of Changesent letters to both platforms urging them to stop promoting former slave plantation venues altogether, according toTheWashington Post....

Pippa Middletonis making a splash heading into the third trimester ofher pregnancy. The younger sister ofKate Middleton, who is expecting her first child with husbandJames Matthews, explained in her latest column for the U.K. supermarket monthlyWaitrose Kitchenthat swimming has become a go-to way to keep up her fitness routine as she nears her due date. “From personal experience, I’d confidently say I find it has been the most enjoyable and rewarding form of exercise since I found out I was expecting,” she shared....

A2021 plane crashthat killed Christian diet guruGwen Shamblin Laraand six others likely took place after her husband, who was piloting the aircraft, became disoriented in the clouds, according to a final report from the National Transportation Safety Board. Shamblin Lara, the weight-loss champion turned religious leader who was the subject of a2021 HBO Max Docuseries, and her husband,Tarzanactor Joe Lara, were headed to Palm Beach, Florida, when the plane took off from a Tennessee airport on May 29, 2021....

Emmalyn Nguyen.Photo: David Woodruff Police have arrested the Colorado plastic surgeon and nurse anesthetist who were involved in the botched breast augmentation thatled to the death of teen patient Emmalyn Nguyen. Surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Kimhas been chargedwith reckless manslaughter and first-degree aggravated assault, both felonies. Nurse anesthetist Rex Meeker was also charged with reckless manslaughter. Nguyen had gone to Kim at Colorado Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery for a breast augmentation on Aug....

Photo: ENRIQUE CASTRO/AFP/GettyYupik’s life of loneliness has come to an end.According to theAssociated Press, the female polar bear died at Benito Juarez Zoo in Morelia, Mexico, after spending 25 years living in a barren, warm enclosure at the facility.Yupik died of an aneurism and a ruptured aorta, the AP reports. She was 27.While the zoo claims that Yupik’s death was “inevitable” and that the animal outlived the average polar bear lifespan of 15 to 18 years, animal activists believe something could have been done to protect the bear....

Pope Francisis offering his prayers onEaster Sunday. Highlighting “trust among individuals, peoples and nations,” Francis said that Easter “illumines the darkness and gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped,” per the outlet. Francis' Sunday appearance took place after he was discharged from the hospital on April 1, where he spent three daysafter seeking treatment for bronchitis. Although he skipped out on attending an outdoor procession on Good Friday due to cold weather in Rome, he did attend a later indoor prayer service at St....

Photo: Courtesy Popeye’sPopeyesis doing it big for the brand’s 50th anniversary!As part of the month-long celebration, the chicken restaurant is offering a special deal that will have customers celebrating like it’s 1972 — the year the brand was founded.Starting on the official anniversary day of June 12, Popeyes is selling a throwback deal for the signature fried chicken that gave the fast food chain its popularity a half-century ago. Locations will offer two pieces of the popular bone-in-chicken for just 59 cents, the same price it sold for back in 1972....

Porsha Williams andSimon Guobadia’s marriageis coming to an end over a year after they tied the knot. News of their split comes asrumors fly online about Guobadia’s citizen status. However, a source tells PEOPLE the divorce is “unrelated to recent allegations involving Simon’s past.” The cause of their split is an “ongoing matter,” adds the insider. Thepair announced their engagementin May 2021 after one month of dating. “Yes we are crazy in love,” Williams captioned a selfie with Guobadia....

Bichvan Le and Thu Nguyen.Photo: Thu Nguyen Update: On Monday, March 1, the front window of Utopia Restaurant & Lounge, a Vietnamese restaurant in Portland, Ore., was broken for a third time since December. Thu Nguyen, the restaurant’s co-manager, whose wife owns the restaurant, says a window of another Asian-owned restaurant was also broken — which Nguyen thinks is part of a spate of anti-Asian attacks in Portland and across the country....

ArePost MaloneandBob Dylanpreparing the unlikely collaboration of a lifetime? During a Thursday appearance onThe Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the 26-year-old “Circles” musician recalled his early days covering Dylan’s music on YouTube and coyly revealed he’s “been chatting” with the legendary 80-year-old singer-songwriter as of late. Before discussingPost Malone’s new albumTwelve Carat Toothache, hostJimmy Fallonasked the rapper about his pre-fame YouTube channel launched under his birth name, Austin Richard Post. The account only features one video,a cover of Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright” uploaded Oct....