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

Hayden Panettiere, an actress whose career began in childhood and whose face became woven into the cultural fabric of two generations of television, has died at 36. Known first as a cheerleader who could not be broken and later as a country star undone by her own fame, she spent her final years turning inward — publishing a memoir and speaking with unusual candour about addiction, depression, and the cost of a life lived in public. No cause of death has been given, and what remains for now is the quiet fact that a person who gave much of herself to the world is gone, leaving those who loved he