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The 69-year-old actor and veterans' advocate had been scheduled to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer award at an official ceremony and parade on Sept. 25.

Dryden backstopped the NHL's most successful franchise to championships in six of his eight seasons in the league from 1970-71 to '78-79. He died after a fight with cancer.

More than 20 Democrats under age 40 are vying for Congress, while on the GOP side, party organizers can point to only one. Young Republicans say it's a sign of how they're rallying behind the party.

While much of the focus marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina is on New Orleans, where federal levees failed and flooded the city, the historic storm also decimated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Former Gov. Haley Barbour reflects on the hurricane's blow to Mississippi, where 238 people were killed. He says there are lessons in the resilience of people and the government's disaster response.

More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.

Cash was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1997 about his career, from touring with Elvis to singing at prisons. He died in 2003.

Stamp, who died Aug. 17, was part of a wave of working-class British actors who came up in the 1960s. His films include Billy Budd, The Limey and two Superman films. Originally broadcast in 2002.

For decades, Irish nuns ran homes for unwed mothers. Beneath one of them, a ghastly discovery: 796 babies buried in a septic tank. Forensics experts are now unearthing Ireland's past.

World Photography Day is Aug. 19. To celebrate this day that recognizes the significance of pictures, NPR asked readers and listeners to share the story behind their favorite photos they have taken.