Good evening. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now. I'm Paige Browning. Here are today's top stories. It's Wednesday, April 24th.

Starbucks is up first. Today, our local coffee conglomerate resumed negotiations with the workers' union,

ending a long impasse. Monica Nicholsberg has the tea. Ari Bray has worked for Starbucks for about

five years. It's how they get health insurance to pay for an expensive Crohn's disease medication.

But Bray has to work an average of 20 hours a week to maintain that insurance, which isn't guaranteed.

I don't like how precarious that is and how the price of it can change from year to year.

I would really just like that to be a little bit more stable so that I don't have to possibly be on the hook for $10,000 on short notice.

Bray is one of five delegates from the Seattle area who traveled to Atlanta to negotiate with

Starbucks. They're fighting for more control over their schedules, higher wages, and better health

insurance benefits. Starbucks says it will work earnestly with workers united to negotiate a

contract by the end of the year. Monica Nicholsberg, KUOW News. Safety concerns surrounding Boeing's manufacturing

have lost the company $355 million in the first quarter. The company revealed the revenue

loss today in its earnings report. Boeing's CEO, David Calhoun, says the company is in a tough

moment, and its focus is on fixing its manufacturing

issues, not the financial results. Company executives have been forced to talk more about safety

than finances after a door plug blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. Boeing

said the first quarter loss was $1.13 per share, which was actually better than analysts had forecast.

The man killed by Seattle police last week was a retired Navy doctor who'd led medical operations at Guantanamo Bay.

He was under suspicion of soliciting sexual activity with minors in Tequila. The medical examiner has identified him as 67-year-old

Bruce Koval Manili. During his decades as a naval doctor, military reports show he was commander

of U.S. Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay,

the U.S. base in Cuba, for two years. Seattle police say when attempting to arrest him at a hotel

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