SEATTLE - Starbucks Corp.'s push into entertainment moved further from the coffeehouse shelves Monday as the company launched a record label based on its existing Hear Music brand.

SEATTLE - Any regular Starbucks customers have likely learned how to spell or define "prestidigitation" or some other tricky word they'd probably never heard of before.

Although we have yet to see an official trailer or production still, I already have mixed feelings about “The Delivery Man.” This upcoming dramedy starring Vince Vaughn follows a middle-aged slouch whose life is turned on its head when he discovers that he’s fathered more than 500 children as a sperm donor – 142 of whom wish to determine who their biological dad is.

A Starbucks in north Scottsdale has reopened after a mysterious white powder found in a roll of coins Thursday turned out to be harmless, according to Scottsdale police.

Starbucks finally has released the official list of all 600 stores it’s closing, and Arizona is pretty much unscathed. The only location in the state to get the ax is a Starbucks along I-10 in Eloy.

SEATTLE - Starbucks Corp. said Thursday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit jumped 35 percent, despite a slight slowdown in store openings and a drop in U.S. traffic.

NEW YORK - Joni Mitchell is following the lead of Paul McCartney in joining with the coffee giant Starbucks to release her comeback album.

SEATTLE - Got three bucks? That and a nickel will buy you a coffee drink at Starbucks. Starbucks Corp. said Thursday that it planned to raise prices of its lattes, cappuccinos, drip coffee and other drinks by 5 cents, or an average of 1.9 percent

NEW YORK - Coffee giant Starbucks and Virgin Records are co-releasing a CD of rare Rolling Stones remixes, B-sides and hard-to-find live recordings, the band announced on its Web site Wednesday.

SEATTLE - Bob Dylan made his mark playing in one cafe. Soon, he'll be in thousands. Starbucks Coffee Co. has reached a deal to produce and exclusively release a CD of 10 Dylan recordings from New York's Gaslight Cafe in 1962, when he was just finding himself as a songwriter.

East Valley big spenders can earn their daily caffeine fix for free by signing up for a Starbucks Visa card.

For some, 24 ounces of coffee just isn't cutting it.

J. Justin Wilson: Starbucks announced that it will make a major change in its baked goods by the end of the month, removing high fructose corn syrup as part of a switch to “real” food. But before you gag on your blueberry scone, consider this: High fructose corn syrup, despite all the media hype, is nutritionally the same as the table sugar that people add to their coffee.

Here’s a great deal for teachers: Starbucks is offering them a free 12-ounce cup of coffee on Mondays this month.

SEATTLE - Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday it will close 600 stores in the United States in the next year and cut back the number of new stores it had planned to open.

SEATTLE - Starbucks Corp. will start serving up a new "everyday" brew today, hoping the signature blend will help revive slumping sales in its crucial U.S. market.

Starbucks Coffee’s customers were unimpressed by the company’s decision to close stores nationwide in order to sharpen their employees’ coffee-making skills, a restaurant industry trade magazine reported.

SEATTLE - Starbucks Corp. fired CEO Jim Donald on Monday, handing the reins back to Chairman Howard Schultz as part of a major restructuring initiative aimed at pulling the company out of a downward slide.