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She and daughter Wynonna were due to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her death was announced by Wynonna and actress Ashley Judd.

Neal Adams revolutionized the comic book industry with his hyper-realistic style for characters such as Batman, Superman, the Green Lantern and the X-Men.

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last week, hit the community's weekly paper hard. The staff of The Newtown Bee put out the first special edition in the paper's 135-year history.

Arthur Schwartz of Ann Arbor, Mich., was a longtime employee of General Motors, a baseball fanatic and a loving father. He died in 2020 from COVID-19.

The seventh season of 24 premieres this Sunday. Critic David Bianculli assesses the four-hour, two-night return of counterterrorist Jack Bauer — who's got some new allies, and some new enemies.

Starting in fall 2009, NBC is going to program its 10-11 p.m. hour with Jay Leno five nights a week. NBC wanted to keep Leno though it is committed to giving the 11:30 p.m. slot to Conan O'Brien in 2009, and it is cheaper to produce five hours of Leno than scripted dramas.

Michael Winterbottom's latest comedy is Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. It's based on an experimental comic novel from the 18th century. The movie is as tricky as its source material.

This fiscal thriller, starring Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto and Demi Moore, is set during one day in 2008, as a group of brokers try to prevent their firm from going belly up. David Edelstein says that given the headlines, the film's timing couldn't be better. (Recommended)

Archaeologists are on a mission to unearth the history of the Olympic Games in Nemea, Greece. The project looks back some 2,700 years, when athletes competed much like they do today -- only in the nude, and barefoot. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for the NPR/National Geographic co-production Radio Expeditions.

It happened not far from the town of Chibok, where over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in April. Audie Cornish speaks with Tim Cocks, Reuters Nigeria bureau chief, based in Lagos.