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SEATTLE -- While September brings the first day of fall, October can be the harbinger of the winter and all of its frigid pitfalls.

As Florida and the Southwest have begun to stabilize, the pain has moved to economically diverse cities where the boom was relatively restrained, like Seattle, Atlanta and Minneapolis.

Starbucks is taking the mobile payment system it has been testing in a limited number of stores in Seattle, New York and San Francisco national.

Starbucks Corp. wants to appeal a bit more to the average Joe.

The foreclosure crisis intensified across a majority of large U.S. metropolitan areas this summer, with Chicago and Seattle — cities outside of the states that have shouldered the worst of the housing downturn — seeing a sharp increase in foreclosure warnings.

A four-year-old business in Seattle is beating the recessionary odds by building furniture from trees doomed by development, disease or storms.

Some professionals are moving to Portland and Seattle in search of affordable, vibrant communities while keeping their jobs in the San Francisco region.

In this April 22, 2009 file photo, Lyle Rudensey holds a cup of refined homemade biodiesel that he made from used cooking oil in his garage in Seattle.

Shortly after surviving the death of her husband and a life-threatening medical crisis, Ann Howe of Seattle decided to refinance her home mortgage.

Everything went smoothly until the bank informed her that the refinance couldn't be completed because the credit bureau Experian was convinced that she was dead.

Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. is beginning to sell a line of electronics accessories called AmazonBasics this weekend.