OLYMPIA, Wash. No winning tickets were sold for the Washington State Lottery's $6.8 million Lotto jackpot or the $100,000 Hit 5 cashpot Monday night, so Wednesday's top prizes will be $6.9 million in Lotto and $140,000 in Hit 5.

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. A 32-year-old Bremerton, Wash., man has been sentenced to 27 months in prison after amassing at least $750,000 worth of stolen machinery and other property.

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. A 15-year-old University High School student has been arrested in a telephone death threat case that prompted school officials to cancel classes Monday at the Spokane Valley school.

OLYMPIA, Wash. In the final days of a heated election, Republican gubernatorial challenger Dino Rossi could be forced to testify under oath about allegations that he illegally coordinated campaign fundraising with a major supporter, the conservative Building Industry Association of Washington.

SEATTLE Without the Sonics as KeyArena's main tenant, the city of Seattle will get $800,000 less next year for its naming rights.

SEATTLE A Machinists union strike has hurt The Boeing Co.'s reputation and threatens the nation's aerospace industry with a fate similar to that of automakers in Detroit, Boeing Chief Executive W. James McNerney said Monday.

Value of the top 25 farm products in Washington state in 2007:

YAKIMA, Wash. You might not like the higher prices in the grocery store, but they meant higher values for Washington crops in 2007.

KIRKLAND, Wash. Home sales in Western Washington rose in September for the first time in more than a year and a half, but prices declined and there were slightly fewer homes on the market, a real estate consortium reported Monday.

FAIRPLAY, Colo. The CEO of a Seattle software company, accused in the killing of 32 of his neighbor's bison, is considering a plea agreement to settle the case.

PULLMAN, Wash. Washington State University police are investigating child pornography on a computer and CDs confiscated Saturday at a campus apartment.

PULLMAN, Wash. A drill at noon Wednesday at Washington State University will be the first test an emergency notification system that was instituted after the Virginia Tech shooting.

KIRKLAND, Wash. Police say an intruder who tied up and sexually assaulted a woman at a Kirkland condo took photos of the assault.

PULLMAN, Wash. Thomas Henick-Kling, an international leader in wine research and education, is the new director of Washington State University's viticulture and enology program.

SPOKANE, Wash. Monday was the biggest day in the writing career of Spokane author Sherry Jones, but she wasn't doing anything special to mark the day.

PULLMAN, Wash. Members of the Washington State University community are wondering about the fate of new Provost Steven Hoch, who abruptly left his job on Sept. 23.

EVERETT, Wash. The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln is returning to its homeport at Everett after a seven-month deployment in support of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

MINIDOKA, Idaho An aspiring Portland, Ore., filmmaker and descendant of Japanese-Americans interned at camps during World War II hopes to produce a documentary that includes southern Idaho's Minidoka Internment National Monument.

WASHINGTON An advocacy group ranks California, Connecticut and Oregon at the top of a list of states improving energy efficiency to respond to high prices, energy security and global warming.

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. A Port Orchard man has started a business offering tattoos for artificial arms and legs.

WENATCHEE, Wash. About 1,500 people took their first look around Wenatchee's new multipurpose arena at Sunday's opening ceremony.

SEATTLE If Bill Gates and Boeing are right, pond scum could be the salvation for our nation's energy woes.

AUBURN, Wash. The baby girl who was abandoned at a Federal Way church is now with her father.

TACOMA, Wash. Police are trying to find the car that struck and dragged a man seven or eight blocks to his death in Tacoma.

SPOKANE, Wash. One man was killed and another critically injured in a stabbing in west Spokane.

TACOMA, Wash. A stopgap spending bill signed last week by President Bush provides nearly $500 million for military bases in Washington, including $330 million for Fort Lewis.

YAKIMA, Wash. Grape growers are hoping for warm days and cool nights the next couple of weeks to get the sugar content and flavors just right for the harvest.

SEATTLE More sidewalk cafes could be opening in Seattle.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The state Health Department says there's plenty of flu vaccine available this season.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The state minimum wage highlights one difference between Gov. Chris Gregoire and Republican challenger Dino Rossi.

SEATTLE The National Weather Service says a strong Pacific storm will bring cold air to the Northwest and the first significant snow of the season to the North Cascades.

SEATTLE The state ferry system says morning commuters can expect delays on the Edmonds-Kingston route. Spokeswoman Susan Harris says it's down to one-boat service because of mechanical problems with the Walla Walla.

SEATTLE Seattle police say an officer was trapped in his patrol car after it went out of control and crashed into a utility pole.

SEATTLE Some members of the Metropolitan King County Council say they're fed up with the state of local animal services, and want to privatize the operations.

TACOMA, Wash. A Bonney Lake couple is celebrating their quadruplets' first birthday this weekend.

SNOHOMISH, Wash. What was supposed to be the last nice day of the year became what Ivy Green now calls the last nice day of her life.

STANWOOD, Wash. Snohomish County has agreed to pay more than $1 million to the parents of a Stanwood High School student who was shot to death by her ex-boyfriend.

KALAMA, Wash. Columbia River ports have made an offer to buy Howard Island to help compensate for ecological damage caused by dredging to deepen the river's ship channel.

SPOKANE, Wash. The bad economy is meaning better business for recyclers in the Spokane area.

TACOMA, Wash. The Mason County coroner says a cancer patient who died after being mauled by dogs died of natural causes, and not from injuries caused by the animals.

SEATTLE Thousands of homes and businesses in the Puget Sound area lost power after gusts of up to 40 miles per hour knocked tree limbs into overhead power lines.

OLYMPIA, Wash. One winning ticket was sold for the $360,000 cashpot in Saturday night's drawing for the Washington State Lottery's Hit 5 game.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. A former Bellingham man charged with killing his wife 18 years ago has pleaded not guilty in Whatcom County Superior Court.

TACOMA, Wash. A Pierce County jury has awarded $11.7 million to the parents of a 2-year-old boy who wandered away from a state-licensed day care and drowned in Lake Tapps in 2004.

SEATTLE Nearly 64 years after he went missing in action in Germany's Huertgen Forest, the scene of the fiercest, longest-running battle in U.S. history, Army 2nd Lt. Ernest E. Martin is coming home to Washington.

YAKIMA, Wash. A 19-year-old prisoner in the Yakima County Jail hanged himself with his bedsheet the night before he was to plead guilty to an arson charge.

SEATTLE Seattle lawyer Anne Bremner says she's been brought in to help Amanda Knox, a Seattle college student who is one of three people jailed since the November 2007 slaying of Knox's roommate in Perugia, Italy.

ROCHESTER, Wash. Two people were killed when a passenger car and a semi-truck collided head-on on Interstate 5 in south Thurston County.

SACRAMENTO Here are the winning horses picked Friday night for the California Lottery's Daily Derby game:

TACOMA, Wash. A Pierce County judge has dismissed two of three criminal charges against Semaj (Suh-MAH'-jay) Booker.