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Amazon asks corporate staff to be in offices 3 days a week

Feb. 17, 2023 15:50 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon will require its corporate employees to return to the office at least three days a week. CEO Andy Jassy announced the policy Friday in a memo to staff. It marks a shift from Amazon's current policy of allowing leaders to determine how their teams worked. The...

Boeing bids farewell to an icon, delivers last 747 jumbo jet

Feb. 01, 2023 06:09 AM EST

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing bid farewell to an icon on Tuesday, delivering its final 747 jumbo jet as thousands of workers who helped build the planes over the past 55 years looked on. Since its first flight in 1969, the giant yet graceful 747 has served as a cargo plane, a commercial...

1 killed by falling tree, 20K lose power in Wash. high winds

Jan. 09, 2023 18:18 PM EST

FALL CITY, Wash. (AP) — A woman was killed on Monday by a falling tree amid strong winds in western Washington, officials said. Authorities were called to a street east of Seattle in Fall City around 8:30 a.m. Monday and found the woman who had been hit, The Seattle Times reported....

2 hurt when small plane hits storage facility in Kent

Jan. 07, 2023 18:52 PM EST

KENT, Wash. (AP) — Two men were hurt when the small plane they were in crashed into a storage facility in Kent on Saturday. The men, ages 59 and 23, were taken to Harborview Medical Center, The Seattle Times reported. Both were conscious at the hospital and their injuries were not...