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If you tune in to the Final Four this weekend, you can be sure that John Wooden is watching, too. The great college basketball coach is pulling for his old team, UCLA, though he's not in love with the way basketball is played these days.

The Massachusetts attorney general is suing construction giant Bechtel, and other companies, over a fatal tunnel collapse in Boston's Big Dig project. The civil suit aims to recover unspecified damages related to the deadly accident. A criminal case may soon follow.

In the Arctic, a change in the weather could mean starvation for herds of musk oxen and other grazing animals. Scientists who study the far north planet have documented "rain-on-snow" events. Rain falls onto the snowpack and freezes into a hard sheet of ice, preventing some wildlife from getting to the plants trapped below.

Three weeks ahead of Afghanistan's presidential and provincial votes, some 35 million ballots are being shipped by plane, truck and even donkey to warehouses in the provinces. But the threat of Taliban-related violence means not every Afghan who wants to vote will be able to.

Director Louie Psihoyos talks about exposing a lucrative dolphin-capture and -slaughter industry in a remote part of Japan — and why he won't be returning to that country anytime soon.

New tax documents show former NPR chief executive Ken Stern was paid more than $1.3 million for the company's fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, the period in which he was dismissed.

At age 4, Bruno Mars was delighting crowds with his "Little Elvis" impersonation. His success as an adult didn't come as quickly, but fame came calling after he produced several big hits.

Winehouse, who mixed pieces of soul, jazz and gospel into pop ballads, was found dead in her apartment Saturday. Police are so far listing the cause of death as "unexplained." Her career as a musician was often overshadowed by her life off-stage, Winehouse struggled with drugs and alcohol throughout her life.

Tesla shares dropped 12.2%, wiping out more than $125 billion off its market value, over worries about how it would be impacted as Elon Musk looks to complete his takeover of Twitter.

The company's email and corporate networks were disabled, and five Sony films were leaked online. North Korean officials said "wait and see" when asked if they were behind the cyberattack.