PImail (Local Stories) for 4/1/2010

Local News Seattle-area garbage workers remain on job Trash collectors represented by the Teamsters union remained on the job Thursday in the Seattle area after their contract expired because negotiations are continuing. Four Wash. men charged in two-state meth bust Almost three-dozen people -- including four from Washington -- have been charged in connection with a methamphetamine trafficking ring that smuggled drugs from Mexico into California and Washington, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Wash. must explain when striking minority jurors The Washington Supreme Court said Thursday that a prosecutor must give a nondiscriminatory reason when striking the only member of a defendant's minority from a jury pool. WA governor announces new health care cabinet Gov. Chris Gregoire is creating a new health care cabinet to implement federal health care reform in Washington state. 59 people killed in fires last year in Washington Fifty-nine people were killed in fires last year in Washington. 86-year-old driver hits Seattle bank An 86-year-old man accidentally drove into the front of a bank in West Seattle at the Westwood Village shopping center. Lewis-McChord unit loses 35th soldier Gov. Chris Gregoire has ordered flags at state buildings flown at half-staff next Monday in memory of the Yakima soldier killed Monday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. High wind, mountain snow forecast for W. WA Friday The National Weather Service says a strong Pacific storm may bring high winds to western Washington and snow in the mountains on Friday. Car crashes into West Seattle bank A car crashed into the Westwood Village Bank of America branch in West Seattle Thursday morning, but no major injuries were reported. Seattle businesses pledging to save Seattle's fireworks Dave Ross Tom Douglas (Josh Trujillo/P-I file) Want to save Seattle's last remaining July 4 fireworks show? Radio host Dave Ross has found a way. - Body found on Spokane Valley railroad tracks - Seattle City Light to enhance Skagit dam towns - Conviction in Centralia credit union robbery case - Sources: House, Senate strike a tax deal - State, Gregoire move to embrace health care reform - 'Thank you, Jesus': Grandma gets to keep her Central Distict house - Garbage haulers' union: No strike, no agreement - Man charged with stealing more than $50,000 from disabled victim - King County deaths - Seattle Center: Between a glass museum and a no-cash place? - Three Renton men convicted in tax-elimination scheme - What?! No July 4 fireworks in Seattle? - Oregon joins fight to make R-71 signatures public - One Seattle area garbage company averts strike; talks continue at another - 3 teens, felon charged with four Seattle-area bank robberies   Wish you had current local news headlines on your web site? Add the Seattle P-I's FREE headline modules to any web page. Get the code here: http://www.seattlepi.com/onyoursite"> Click here to edit your topics Click here to unsubscribe				CHANGES TO PImail PImail will now be delivered in the afternoon instead of the morning and will contain articles that have been updated in the previous 24 hours. We've deleted some content areas and added a few new ones. Update your selections by clicking here.     USER RESOURCES Edit my e-mail address Edit my topics Unsubscribe

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