Worker killed in fall from lift

Crystal Mountain

A worker was killed Thursday when he fell from a lift at the Crystal Mountain ski resort.

The Pierce County medical examiner's office identified him as Randy Reeves, 39.

He was a contract worker who was in a basket while painting a tower on the Rainier Express lift, Crystal Mountain manager Scott Bowen said. He was somehow knocked out of the basket and fell about 40 feet.

Reeves was conscious when other workers found him but stopped breathing shortly after.

$5 million given for cancer research

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has given the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center $5 million to further its research of early detection of breast and prostate cancers.

The grant will finance the testing of a theory that certain blood proteins indicate early development of the cancers.

The five-year survival rate for breast-cancer patients is 85 to 95 percent for those diagnosed at an early stage, but 22 percent for those diagnosed when the cancer has spread to distant organs.

Nearly 100 percent of men with prostate cancer survive at least five years if diagnosed early, compared to about 34 percent when the cancer has spread widely.

Seattle

Man, 25, shot dead on Capitol Hill

A 25-year-old Seattle man was fatally shot early Thursday on Capitol Hill, police said.

The man and two friends were in a parked car in the 300 block of East Harrison Street, a dead-end, said Seattle police spokeswoman Debra Brown. At some point, someone fired several times into the car. The man was sitting in the front passenger seat, she said.

Justice DeShaun White died from gunshot wounds, according to the King County Medical Examiner's Office.

At 2:12 a.m., dispatchers received several 911 calls from people who heard shots.

Bank-robbery suspect arrested

Police have arrested a 33-year-old Everett man suspected of robbing a Bank of America in Lynnwood on Monday.

The man turned himself in to Tacoma police after Lynnwood detectives posted his photograph at Tacoma motels, according to a Lynnwood police news release.

The man is being held in Snohomish County Jail for the Lynnwood robbery as well as a recent bank robbery in Everett.

Youth killed in wreck identified

The Snohomish County youth who died in a collision with a dump truck near Marysville was identified as Scott Skiles by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner on Thursday.

Skiles, 17, crossed the center line at about 2:25 p.m. Tuesday in the 2500 block of Fire Trail Road and collided head-on with the truck, Snohomish County sheriff's spokesman Rich Niebusch said.

The driver of the dump truck was uninjured.

Truckers exempt from overtime rules

Truckers who transport agricultural goods aren't required to receive overtime, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that under the state's minimum-wage act, the truckers were exempt from time-and-a-half overtime for hours worked past a 40-hour workweek.

Washington's minimum-wage act requires employers to pay overtime, but there are exceptions, including those individuals employed "in packing, packaging, grading, storing, or delivering to storage, or to market or to a carrier for transportation to market, any agricultural or horticultural commodity."

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