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Claudette Colvin was a civil rights pioneer. She died this week at 86
Wed Jan 14 4:30 pm
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, who helped spark the civil rights movement, has died
Wed Jan 14 4:39 am
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.

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies
Tue Jan 13 8:13 pm
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.

Scott Adams, the controversial cartoonist behind 'Dilbert,' dies at 68
Tue Jan 13 12:00 pm
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.

Remembering Guy Moon, the composer behind 'The Fairly OddParents' and more
Mon Jan 12 4:05 pm
The Emmy-nominated composer Guy Moon has died at the age of 63.

Remembering the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir
Mon Jan 12 4:42 am
We remember guitarist Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead, who died Saturday at 78.

Bob Weir, guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at 78
Sat Jan 10 11:40 pm
For three decades with the Grateful Dead and three more after the group ended following the 1995 death of his bandmate Jerry Garcia, Weir helped build and sustain the band's legacy across generations.

Aldrich Ames, CIA officer who spied for Soviet Union, has died at 84
Wed Jan 07 4:33 pm
One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold highly classified secrets to the Soviet Union starting in the mid 1980s.

Rep. Doug LaMalfa remembered as a conservative advocate for rural California
Wed Jan 07 4:48 am
Republican Congressman Doug LaMalfa of California died Monday at 65. He is being remembered as a conservative advocate for the state's rural north.

CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who sold U.S. secrets to the Soviets, dies in prison at 84
Wed Jan 07 3:54 am
CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84.