BLAINE, Wash., March 11 (UPI) -- An attempt to settle a long-running legal battle over a retaining wall built by homeowners along the U.S.-Canadian border has been rejected, observers say.

SEATTLE, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. District judge has ruled against Howard Schultz on two motions the former Seattle Supersonics owner used to try to keep the NBA team in Seattle.

SEATTLE, July 23 (UPI) -- A man U.S. officials called the "king of the Internet spammers" began serving a 47-month prison sentence Wednesday on mail fraud and other charges.

SEATTLE, July 2 (UPI) -- Seattle SuperSonics owner Clay Bennett agreed Wednesday to pay the city of Seattle $45 million so he can immediately move the team to Oklahoma.

SEATTLE, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Plaintiffs suing Microsoft Corp. for the way its U.S. Windows Vista operating system was depicted to consumers have requested class-action status for the case.

SEATTLE, April 7 (UPI) -- A Seattle psychologist has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for billing a program for military families for therapy never given.

SEATTLE, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A young Minnesota man was sentenced Friday in Seattle to 18 months in prison for sending out a variant of the MS Blaster worm to the Internet.

OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The final ballots in the recount of Washington's neck-and-neck gubernatorial race were tallied Monday following a judge's ruling.

NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Infospace founder Naveen Jain has been ordered to pay $247.1 million to a Seattle-based Internet firm, a report said Saturday.