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A stranger completely changed the life of one little boy who was blind and partially deaf after their serendipitous encounter in the grocery store led the man to give the child an electronic keyboard — beginning what has become an unbelievable career as a professional pianist. Brian Horberg was about 9 years old when he left a lasting impression on California-based author Glenn Palmedo-Smith. The two met in a Danbury, Connecticut Stop and Shop in the 90s, while Palmedo-Smith was traveling to Norwich to do research for a book he was writing....

Bo Rinehart was full of confidence and bravado on stage withNEEDTOBREATHE, the multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated rock band he formed with his brother,Bear Rinehart, more than two decades ago. Bo Rinehart’s voice wraps around harmonies like silk threads as his fingers attack his instrument’s strings. While that was his life for 20 years, the band revealed Rinehart had stepped away from the group in 2020. The South Carolina native was deep in a battle with alcohol and, through years of trauma work, discovered his history was darker than he realized....

Kingsley Ben-Adir, Bob Marley.Photo: Getty (2) Kingsley Ben-Adirknows quite a bit about the legendaryBob Marley. The actor, 37, who plays the late music icon in the new biopic,Bob Marley: One Love, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue that Marley was “humble” and “loving” but also had a “tough side.” When asked to detail the most helpful piece of advice he got fromMarley’s familyabout playing the reggae musician, Ben-Adir says, “That he was from the ghetto, [where] they called him Tuff Gong....

WhenJohnny CarsonhelmedThe Tonight Show, few celebrities frequented the late-night NBC talk show as much asBob Newhart. Speaking to PEOPLE in this week’s issue, Newhart, 90, reflects on his six decades in show business and the close relationships that he built along the way. One of those special friendships was with the late Carson, who hostedThe Tonight Showfrom 1962 to 1992. A particular shared interest that bonded the two comedians? Their love of pranks....

The remains of the four people who died in a helicopter crash in the Gulf of Mexico have been found and brought to shore. On Dec. 29, a Bell 407 helicopter carrying four people “crashed into the Gulf of Mexico” at roughly noon local time “while departing the West Delta 106 offshore drilling platform,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a release shared with PEOPLE. The FAA said it and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating....

A weeklong search for an escaped Ohio prisoner has come to an end after police confirmed that a body found dead in a Kentucky river is “most likely” the inmate, per multiple reports. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP The U.S. Marshals Cleveland division also confirmed viaTwitter: “Wanted fugitive Bradley Gillespie has been found deceased. His body was recovered in the Ohio River in Henderson, Kentucky. Gillespie was serving time for murder when he escaped custody last week....

Bonnie Raitt.Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Bonnie Raitttook home the prestigious song of the year prize at the 2023Grammy Awards. “Oh my God,” she said as she began her acceptance speech, her shock palpable. “I’m so surprised. I don’t know what to say. This is just an unreal moment.” Raitt, 73, thanked the Recording Academy for appreciating “the art of songwriting” and “honoring” her. She added, “I don’t write a lot of songs but I’m so proud that you appreciate this one....

Bono.Photo: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty ImagesBono is opening up about a surprising family revelation that emerged just before the death of his father.The U2 frontman, 62, revealed in a new interview that he has a half-brother about whose existence he only learned in 2000.“I do have another brother, whom I love and adore, that I didn’t know I didn’t have,” the singer toldBBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discson Sunday.Bono explained that his late father Bob was “obviously going through a lot” after the star’s mother Iris died in 1974, and said it seemed as though his “head was elsewhere ‘cause his heart was elsewhere....

Boris Johnson and Queen Elizabeth in June 2021.Photo: Jack Hill/WPA Pool/Getty Images Queen Elizabethwas known for being prim and proper, but she also didn’t shy away from a good joke. Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson reminisced on his time with the late monarch in an article for theDaily Mailas the first anniversary of her death approaches next week. Johnson was the14th prime minister of Queen Elizabeth’s historic 70-year reign, and the Queen’slast public duty before her deathwas formally appointingLiz Trussas the new premier after Johnsonstepped down....

Photo: ABC 11 Braydon Smith is being praised for his quick thinking and action after slashing the intruder in the back of his neck with the machete he recently bought to cut down trees and branches while camping,The News & Observerreports. The suspect, who the Orange County Sheriff’s Office identified as Jataveon Dashawn Hall, initially fled the scene and sought medical attention, but has since been taken into custody....

Thirteen-year-old Johnny Martin’s love for dogs first began during his strenuous chemotherapy for soft cell cancer.For more than a year, Martin spent nearly every weekday at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, Fox Denverreports, for cancer treatment.The rare form of cancer has been taxing for the teenager. Along with receiving chemotherapy, Martin also underwent a surgery to completely remove the cancer growing in his chest that reportedly took an operating team 26 hours to finish....

Photo: FBI A Federal grand jury indicted a 30-year-old Arizona man in connection with the death of Jamie Yazzie, a Navajo woman who went missing in the summer of 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office statedin a press release. Tre James, who like the victim was also from Pinon, was arrested on charges of first-degree murder and several acts of domestic violence. He is scheduled to appear for a detention hearing Tuesday....

“I felt like it was a really bad idea to leave my family,” he recalled this week to an audience of broadcasters at the annual Country Radio Seminar. “It felt like the beginning of what it was — a war. I came home, and I walked through the door, and I broke down sobbing.” His wife,Kimberly Williams-Paisley,and theirtwo sons, Huck, 13, and Jasper, 11,rushed to him, Paisley recalled. “And they said, ‘What’s wrong, Daddy?...