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Good evening. Paige Browning here from the KU.O.W. Newsroom. This is Seattle now. Coming up,

there are ghosts of old corner stores hiding in Seattle, and they could make a comeback.

But first, here are today's top stories. It's Tuesday, March 26th.

The search is underway for Boeing's next CEO after David Calhoun's announcement that he will step down at the end of the year.

Journalist and analyst Bill Soperito says Boeing's next leader should

consider moving to Washington State. I think it would be a great kind of gesture to move

back to Washington where it all began and to say, I'm going to live where the problem is right now.

And even if they don't move the corporation back, the next CEO should

set up shop in Seattle and say, I'm not moving until we get this straightened out. Boeing moved its

headquarters away from Seattle in 2001 and has been based in Northern Virginia since 2022. As for who

the person should be, Saperito says, an insider with high-tech manufacturing experience and the trust of employees would be best positioned to help Boeing recover the safety culture that it made famous.

Big moves are happening in the local sports world. First, the University of Washington has named their new athletic

director, one of the highest paid state employees, and they didn't have to look too far to make the

higher. It'll be Pat Chun, the athletic director at, wait for it, rival Washington State University

for the past six years, swapping crimson for purple. Udub was stung last week when athletic director Troy Dannen left after six months on the job.

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