A hospital that kept a man alive against his wishes does not have to reimburse his estate $100,000 in medical expenses, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Edward H. Winter told his doctor he did not want to be resuscitated when he was hospitalized with heart problems in 1988. His wife had deteriorated after such a procedure, and he did not want to suffer the same fate.

A television station's bid to block release of its videotapes, notes and phone logs related to the Wenatchee sex ring case was dealt a setback Friday. A Spokane County judge ruled that he has no jurisdiction in the case against KREM-TV of Spokane, and cannot hear the station's arguments against releasing the subpoenaed information.

A woman has sued over a homemade adult videotape - intended for the private use of herself and her male partner - that was shown to employees of an auto parts store. She said the tape also ended up on a video rental store's shelves under the title "Banana Man." When her partner bragged to co-workers at the auto parts store about the private tape, one of them took the tape from his car and showed it to other employees, the suit said. Later, the tape allegedly was shown to new store workers at an orientation session and offered for rent at the video store where it was copied. Joanna Norton is seeking $20 million in damages.

A former employee at Big Brothers and Big Sisters of North Idaho has filed a sexual harassment suit against the non-profit organization and its general manager. Shelley Olson of Coeur d'Alene says she was fired after complaining that director Don Kaufman made inappropriate comments about her breasts.

1. Mike Tyson, flanked by promoter Don King (right) and Rev. Al Sharpton (left) answers questions after jury verdict. Photo by Associated Press 2. Rooney

The family of a toddler who fell ill in 1993 after his parents ate at a Jack-in-the-Box has reached a $4.375 million settlement with the restaurant chain's parent company. Tyler Peterson of Snohomish was among several hundred people who became ill in January 1993 from an outbreak of E. coli bacteria linked to contaminated and undercooked hamburgers at Jack-in-the-Box restaurants. Three children in Washington died in the outbreak.

Ronald S. Thiel spent 11 months in prison on probation violations stemming from his July 30, 1995, arrest for possession of marijuana and drunken driving. But the green leafy substance he had rolled into a bunch of cigarettes turned out not to be marijuana after all. And the drunken driving charge was dismissed 13 days after Thiel's arrest because his blood alcohol level was determined to have been within the legal limit.

A Troy, Idaho, man is suing a Post Falls church for the death of his wife and unborn son. Christopher G. Fickel filed a wrongful death suit against Falls Full Gospel Assembly of God Church Wednesday because of a fatal car accident caused by the church's former pastor.

Accusing the Unocal oil company of profiting from widespread forced labor and other human rights abuses in the Southeast Asian nation of Burma, the self-declared Burmese government-in-exile Tuesday sued the company in federal court. The suit, filed in Los Angeles where Unocal is headquartered, asks for an injunction to stop the company from participating in a $1.2 billion joint venture gas pipeline project with Burma's stateowned Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise.

He's "Ross Perot" no longer. A Kennewick man who legally changed his name to Ross Perot on July 30 must go back to being Bill Jesernig, a Benton County District judge ruled Tuesday.

Washington state is going to court to try to stop the granting of additional fishing quotas to Alaskan Native villages on the Bering Sea. The state contends the quotas unfairly reduce the possible catch of Washington fishermen, who rely heavily on the Bering Sea.

Hemophiliacs who claim they contracted the virus that causes AIDS from tainted blood-clotting products could get $100,000 each under a settlement offer approved by a federal judge Wednesday. The $640 million settlement offer from four major drug companies would also cover survivors of hemophiliacs who died of AIDS, as well as family members and others who have contracted HIV from a person with hemophilia.

Rejena Coghlan, right, in a photo taken at a University of Idaho fraternity party about an hour and a half before her paralyzing fall.

Just as Gov. William Weld was signing the nation's first state law requiring cigarette makers to disclose the additives they use in each brand, four tobacco companies sued Friday to block the effort. The companies say federal law preempts the new state law.

In a decision that dismissed a rape case involving two Virginia Tech football players, a judge ruled that Congress exceeded its authority by enacting a law that lets women sue their attackers in federal court. Christy Brzonkala, the first woman to sue under the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, claimed the two players raped her in their dormitory suite in 1994.

Israel has agreed to compensate a Palestinian family whose month-old baby died of pneumonia after soldiers held up an ambulance for 90 minutes at an army checkpoint. Doctors said the baby boy could have been saved if the ambulance hadn't been delayed. The parents of Shaker Shawahneh sued the defense ministry after their son died March 9.

Caldera Inc., the small software firm backed by Novell Inc. founder Ray Noorda, has filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft Corp. The suit accuses Microsoft of willfully maintaining a monopoly over its operating software for personal computers through unlawful pricing, programming and licensing. Caldera seeks damages but did not state a specific amount.

In 1992, the United Steelworkers of America made a critical choice - to protect one member from losing his job at Kaiser Aluminum Corp.'s Trentwood factory while dismissing another's complaint of racial harassment. On Friday, a U.S. District Court jury in Spokane ruled that the choice was a $1.8 million mistake. "It's been a long haul, and I feel vindicated," said Richard Conterez, who was awarded the money in a civil rights case that pitted the 51-year-old, American-born Hispanic electrician against the fiercely loyal labor union.

A former Washington State Patrol dispatcher with a bad eye is suing the agency, claiming it put her good eye at risk by keeping her work area too dark. Dianne Murray, who worked as a dispatcher in the WSP Spokane office until October 1993, filed the suit in Spokane County Superior Court earlier this week. Murray wants her job back in addition to lost pay and punitive damages for pain, suffering and humiliation.