Hayden Panettiere, 'Nashville' and 'Heroes' Star, Dead at 36

Hayden Panettiere, who gave American television two of its more memorable characters across two decades of work, has died at 36. She had only recently offered the public her own account of that life — a memoir that now reads as something closer to a final reckoning than a midcareer reflection. Her death arrives at the age when many artists are just beginning to fully inhabit their gifts, and it leaves behind the particular silence that follows a voice that had only just learned to speak for itself.