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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Workers at Verizon’s north Seattle stores in Everett and Lynnwood won their union elections Friday, becoming the first unionized Verizon stores in the country outside of New York. The near-unanimous victory marks the latest in a growing labor movement across the country that includes unionizing at Starbucks stores and the first … Read more

ST. LOUIS — Former downtown nightspot Reign left its Washington Avenue building with ripped out or destroyed cabinets, freezers, coolers, toilets, stoves, doors and gas fireplaces after it was vacated last year, its landlord alleges in a lawsuit. A motion filed by the landlord this week is asking a judge to order Reign and its … Read more

By WILL WEISSERT – Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden and his wife Jill made $610,702 in their first year in the White House and paid $150,439 in federal income taxes. That was a tax rate of 24.6% for 2021, well above the average of around 14% for all Americans. The totals were … Read more

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri’s campaign to fully legalize marijuana said this week that it needs twice as many signatures as it has already collected to guarantee a spot in the Nov. 8 vote. The Legal Missouri 2022 campaign has about 170,000 valid signatures from across the state to submit by May 8 in about three … Read more

It’s difficult to follow the late Michael Neidoff, but no one expects new Centene CEO Sarah London to follow the same script. Neidorff was a master builder who created a $130 billion healthcare behemoth through acquisitions and aggressive expansion. Analysts see London, which took over the top post 16 days before Neidorff’s death at the … Read more

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – The unemployment rate fell in Kentucky last month, the state reported. The state’s interim jobless rate was 4% in March, down 0.2 percentage points from February and down 0.7 percentage points from a year earlier, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics in the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. The civilian … Read more

AP LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Southern California shoe store owner accused of shooting and injuring a 9-year-old girl when he opened fire on shoplifters agreed Thursday to be brought back from Nevada to face charges in the case will. Police said Marqel Cockrell, 20, fled the California desert town of Victorville in his car … Read more

AP SALINAS, Calif. (AP) – Firefighters have contained a massive blaze at a food processing plant in central California that prompted authorities to order thousands of nearby residents to evacuate Thursday and tens of thousands more to stay in their homes . The fire broke out Wednesday night at the Taylor Farms lettuce factory in … Read more

By MIKE CATALINI – Associated Press TRENTON, NJ (AP) — Recreational marijuana sales in New Jersey for persons age 21 and older will begin April 21, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said Thursday. Murphy’s announcement on Twitter comes just three days after state regulators gave seven facilities already selling medical cannabis the green light to sell … Read more

By WAYNE PARRY – Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (AP) — As a casino dealer, Shamikah Townsend knows when the odds are in her favor. And now they definitely are. Last year, while working at an Atlantic City casino, she attended a job fair hosted by another and was surprised at how quickly she was … Read more