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The wildly popular digital game Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 50 million times in the past year. In May, Mattel plans to release a board game that aims to capture the same spirit of revenge and the joy of knocking things over.

Studies show only about 40 percent of health care workers in the U.S. wash their hands as often as they should. So some hospitals are trying to monitor just how regularly their employees are washing up — by testing out new surveillance technologies.

This year's Oscar-nominated documentaries include a tale of terminal cancer, dispatches from behind bars in Alabama, and stories from Iran and Russia.

Fighting intensified in the Middle East during the Olympic truce, in effect through March 15. Flights are being disrupted as athletes and families converge on Italy for the Winter Paralympics.

The World Meteorological Organization has retired the name Melissa from its Atlantic basin naming lists after the Category 5 devastated Jamaica in 2025.

Ethan Magoc has been named director of the Innovation News Center (INC) in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC). Magoc has served as Interim Director since May 2025.

Alabama voters head to the polls Tuesday in a primary to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat. Voters will choose Republican and Democrat candidates for the seat that opened when Sessions joined the White House.

Alabama is the last state that allows judicial override — when a judge can impose a death sentence by overruling a jury's recommendation of life in prison. That may change soon.

There's only one health department in Alabama where people can go to be tested for tuberculosis. That's in Perry County, where an outbreak claimed three lives in 2015. For every 100,000 people there, 253 would be infected; normally in Alabama it's only 2.5. Now, health officials are trying to get handle on the disease. But it hasn't been easy, so officials there decided to take a new approach.

Alabama is not a state that generally has prominence in presidential primaries. But Alabama's secretary of state is on a mission to change that in 2016, and he's having success luring GOP contenders.