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Good evening and TGIF. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning.

Coming up, we'll tag along with a Republican who attended the state convention as she decided who to endorse. That's in a few minutes. But first, here are today's top stories. It's Friday, April 26th.

Alerts are out in Western Washington today for a man who escaped a minimum security prison in Monroe,

about an hour's drive from Seattle.

The Department of Corrections says 59-year-old Patrick Lester Clay escaped the Monroe Correctional Complex

by breaking into a staff office and stealing car keys.

He was last seen driving a white four-door GMC Sierra truck. Clay is serving a

sentence for burglary, harassment, and theft charges in King County. Officials were asking the public

to call 911 or the Monroe Correctional Complex if they spot him. Moving on to city politics,

politicians are getting involved again in how much gig workers earn.

A Seattle City Council committees moving to roll back the recent pay hike for gig work drivers,

but those drivers are pushing back.

Ruby DeLuna has more.

Uber Eats driver Kyle Graham reminded the council that a decade ago, Seattle was the first city to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

The council seems to want to make history again by being the first major state to remove a minimum wage from tens of thousands of workers.

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