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Prince, a prodigy, a provocateur and a complete game-changer in popular mu- sic, died Thursday at his Paisley Park compound in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen. He was 57. Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson con- firmed Thursday afternoon that depu- ties and medics were dispatched to Pais- ley Park about 9:43 a.m. CDT, where they found the singer unresponsive in an elevator. Their attempts to revive him failed, and he was pronounced dead at 10:07 a.m.

The statement said it was still investigating the death with assistance from the Hennepin County Office and the Midwest Medical Office. is with profound sadness that I am confirming that the legendary, iconic performer Prince Rogers Nelson has died at his Paisley Park residence this morning at the age of his publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, said in a statement. She did not elaborate on the cause of his death. Prince had been briefly hospitalized the prior Friday after his plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Quad City International Airport. Noel-Schure told USA TODAY that he had been struggling with the flu.

Prince, a 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, won seven Grammy Awards. He also won a best-original- song Oscar for his 1984 film His long list of hit songs includes Red Doves Go and The 5-foot-2 Minneapolis native, born Prince Rogers Nelson, broke through in the late 1970s and never forgot where he came from. He continued to live and work there for the rest of his life. For- mer Gov. Jesse Ventura called his death a loss for Prince also gave a leg up to other mu- sicians such as Sheila E.

And he wrote for other performers, including the Ban- gles Sheena Easton and Sinead (who popularized his then-little-known Compares 2 one to conform, he redefined and forever changed our musical land- scape. Prince was an original who influ- enced so many, and his legacy will live on Recording Academy Presi- dent Neil Portnow said in a statement. MTV, which came of age alongside the singer, called Prince once-in-a- lifetime artist who transcended every medium and genre he touched and cre- ated music with a passion and individ- uality that inspired multiple genera- His influence always inten- tional. Prince is partially responsible for the parental advisory warnings on album covers. In the late 1980s, Tipper Gore, then the wife of politician Al Gore, reportedly co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center after she heard his explicit sin- gle Prince famously changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol when contract renegotiations with his record label, Warner broke down in 1993.

Even after his contract was over and he resumed using his name, he was still routinely referred to as Art- ist Formally Known as and Prince remained outspoken until the end, recording a tribute to Freddie Gray, who died in police cus- tody, in 2015. He was also a devout Wit- ness, having converted from the Sev- enth Day Adventist Church in 2001, not that he labeled it as such. He frequently fans when he knocked on doors as part of its proselytization practice. While not known if he managed to win any new converts, he probably got past the front door more often than most of his fellow evangelists. The notoriously private singer was married twice.

He wed backup singer Mayte Garcia in 1996. That year, they lost their only child, Boy Gregory, a week after his birth to a skull defect. Their marriage was annulled two years later. He was also married to Manuela Testolini from 2001 to 2006. That union did not produce any children.

Game-changer and prodigy Prince found dead at 57 CHRIS Prince performs at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 19, 2013. LIU HEUNG Prince performs at the Forum in Inglewood, in 1985. Sheriff: Artist was unresponsive in elevator JAYME DEERWESTER USA TODAY He was a prodigy, a provocateur and a complete game-changer in popular music. It would be difficult to imagine, in fact, what pop and would sound like today had Prince, who died Thurs- day at 57, never recorded or per- formed. Like all great artists, Prince was himself a synthesizer of influences; his ranged from Sly Stone to Joni Mitchell to Todd Rundgren.

The music he produced as a result as a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist defied genre, blending a mastery of pop hooks and funk grooves on singles that could be as lush as as muscular and rocking as Go and as fe- rociously bracing as Doves and that was just on one album, commercial behemoth The Minnesota native who kept living and working in Minneapolis, at his Paisley Park Studios released his first album, at 19. From the start, his songs were as notable for their flouting of sexual taboos as they for their crackling musicality, as sub- sequent titles like and suggested. With his first album to feature The Revolution, one of sever- al outfits he would lead he offered the sly Pretend and the charging, metaphor-driven Red Not long after that, the Parents Music Resource Cen- ter cited from in objections to content that eventually led to the use of parental-ad- visory labels. A film accompanying and sharing its title in- troduced Prince as an actor and multi- media superstar. the Cherry was less well-received as a movie, though its soundtrack, the album produced a chart-top- ping smash in the oft-sampled The released as a solo album, marked a critical high point and yielded a few popular singles, including Got The which paired him with Sheena Easton.

Prince collaborated with and cham- pioned female musicians throughout his career, among them sionist Sheila E. and the Susanna and Wendy Melvoin (who also contributed to Remembering the influence on pop music ELYSA GARDNER USA TODAY A massive collection of public- and private-sector groups on Thursday called for a national push to teach science and tech- nology to children as young as 3 or 4 years old. Leading the effort on so-called active STEM (STEM stands for science, tech- nology, engineering and mathematics) is the White House, which brought hundreds of educators and policymakers to Washington for a sympo- sium on the topic. The groups are di- verse, spanning NASA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Sesame Workshop, the Girl Scouts, the Fred Rogers the Hispanic Infor- mation and Telecommuni- cations Network, the Bay Area Discovery Museum and the Jim Henson among others.

The Jim Henson Co. an- nounced that, with $3 mil- lion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, it will launch a new PBS series titled and aimed at ages 4 to 7, that will inspire chil- dren to care about the ocean. children are born explorers and natural sci- said Deputy As- sistant to the President for Education Roberto Rodriguez. any of our parents and teachers know so well, our children are born Researchers concluded just how im- portant STEM training will be for future job mar- kets competing re- search paints starkly dif- ferent pictures of job op- portunities for STEM workers. For instance, a 2011 U.S.

Department of Com- merce study predicted that between 2008 and 2018, STEM-related em- ployment would jump 17 percent, compared with non-STEM-related employment at 9.8 per- cent. It also found that un- employment for workers in STEM jobs was about half that of other workers. But a 2013 look at the information technology labor market by the Eco- nomic Policy Institute found that for every two students who graduate from U.S. colleges with STEM degrees, only one is actually hired into a STEM job. In computer and information science and engineering, it found, U.S.

colleges graduate 50 percent more students than are hired into those fields each year. Libby Doggett, deputy assistant secretary for Policy and Early Learning at the U.S. Department of Education, said the needs of the future workforce are fairly clear and driving the cur- rent push. know that most of the jobs of the future are going to involve heavy math and science and technology back- she said. cannot be a fad and it will not be a Some of the effort will entail research, funded by the Education Depart- Institute for Edu- cation Science, on how early elementary school science teaching can im- prove outcomes for chil- dren, especially those from low-income back- grounds and ties underrepresented in science IES will fund up to four re- search teams, the Obama administration said.

want to catch kids, basically, before we lose them from science in the first said Russell Shilling, executive di- rector of STEM in the Office of Innovation and Im- provement. lot of our efforts in the past have been looking at middle school and high school and our thinking is, what if we keep them interested through the entire childhood ex- Shilling said the ef- fort will help parents and educators make sense of a vast and large- ly unregulated market of software applications designed to teach math and science around 800,000, by some esti- mates. though there are a lot of good apps out there, and we think educational, a lot of them really have that evidence base be- hind them to show that useful and what supposed to be he said. White House, educators push for preschool STEM learning GREG TOPPO USA TODAY WIN IMAGES President Barack Obama listens to sisters Rebecca Yeung, left, and Kimberly Yeung explain their science project April 13 at the White House Science Fair. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates A U.S.

Navy officer relieved of com- manding a Persian Gulf patrol ship allegedly failed to maintain equip- ment to the point of ex- posing crew to un- necessary inter- fered with an inquiry into his actions and once slept drunk on a bench at a Dubai port, according to a naval investigation. The accusations against Lt. Cmdr. Jere- miah Daley saw the Na- vy remove him March 12 from the USS Typhoon, a Manama, Bahrain-based vessel patrolling a re- gion crucial to global oil supplies where Ameri- can forces routinely have tense encounters with Iranian forces. Daley, now assigned to Task Force 55, is on leave.

He said he was chal- lenging the report and appealing his punish- ment because a number of things are 100 percent not He declined to elabo- rate, as he said he was on leave for the birth of his second child and wanted the appeal process take its The 300-page investi- gative report into actions, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, shows his crew also complained about his poor manage- ment style, with one sailor saying morale aboard the ship was the the sailor had seen in a 28- year career. Daley assumed com- mand of the Typhoon, a coastal patrol ship that typically carries 24 enlist- ed personnel and four of- ficers, in May 2015. The Typhoon is one of 10 Cyclone-class ships the Navy bases out of Mana- ma to patrol shallow wa- ters in the Persian Gulf, providing security amid the U.S. campaign against the Islamic State group and other extremists while offering a counter- balance to Iranian vessels in the region. Navy accuses Gulf commander of misconduct JON GAMBRELL ASSOCIATED PRESS.