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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge is allowing the bulk of a lawsuit accusing Starbucks of systematically under-filling lattes to move forward. Two California residents are suing the Seattle-based coffee chain, claiming that Starbucks lattes are only filled to about 75 percent of the cup's capacity...

National Crop Insurance Services reports Nearly 90 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of farmers, and 92 percent said it was important to provide them with federal funding, according to a poll released May 11. Positive marks cut across party lines, showing that a strong farm policy is a bipartisan issue...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Olympia School District is facing a lawsuit that claims it hid information from families about a school bus driver who admitted to molesting their children. The Olympian reports that Gary Shafer was sentenced in 2011 to more than 14 years in prison after being convicted of assaulting three girls...

SEATTLE (AP) — Another lawsuit has been filed against Seattle's Ride the Ducks tour company concerning the deadly crash last September. Attorneys for the mother and the estate of a 17-year-old Runjie Song, a Chinese exchange student who was one of five students killed in the crash, are suing the Ride the Ducks company, the city of Seattle and the state of Washington...

SEATTLE (AP) — Three conservation groups have settled a lawsuit they filed to stop the U.S. Forest Service from opening 350 miles of forest roads to motorized vehicles in central Washington. Under the settlement, the Forest Service agreed not to authorize public use to all-terrain vehicles without first completing an assessment of environmental effects. The...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tarla Makaeff has fought Donald Trump in court for six years. Now, as the Republican presidential front-runner and his lawyers try to portray the Southern California yoga instructor as the face of a federal class-action lawsuit against Trump University, she wants out. ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Opening statements are scheduled to begin in the civil trial between pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and a popular news website. Proceedings will start Monday morning in a St. Petersburg courtroom. Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, is suing Gawker for $100 million for publishing a sex tape of him and the wife of a Tampa radio personality. ...

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is staying out of a copyright dispute involving a California man who produced replicas of the Batmobile for car-collecting fans of the caped crusader. The justices on Monday let stand a lower court ruling that said the Batmobile's bat-like appearance and high-tech gadgets make it a character that can't be duplicated without permission from DC Comics, the copyr

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jurors could soon decide whether two hotel companies should be held partially responsible for a stalker taking nude videos of sportscaster Erin Andrews and posting them online. The jury is scheduled to begin deliberating in Andrews' civil case Monday. The...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A jury could soon begin deliberating on whether two hotel companies and a convicted stalker should be forced to pay sportscaster Erin Andrews millions of dollars. Closing arguments are set to begin in Andrews' civil case on Friday. The...