Eddie Conyers, a 97-year-old football practice referee at the University of Alabama, has died. He spent six decades working with some of the most notable coaches to get teams ready for game day.

Two days after VA nurse Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents, we learn more about who he was from his friend.

Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Marvin Jackson, who co-wrote West's memoir.

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost.

Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died at 93. For decades, he was a leader in high fashion and helped define Italian style.

In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a Black high school in Montgomery, Ala., refused to move from her bus seat. The forgotten civil rights activist died this week.

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement.

Adams announced in May that he was dying of metastatic prostate cancer. Thousands of newspapers carried his strip satirizing office culture starting the '90s, until a controversy in 2023.

The Emmy-nominated composer Guy Moon has died at the age of 63.