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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Legislature has passed a bill that would let women get a 12-month refill of their birth control prescriptions instead of a month at the time. The measure passed the Senate Wednesday on a 48-1 vote after passing the House last month on a 93-5 vote...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a Justice Department investigation over how a nurse was able to divert more than 96,000 oxycodone pills from an onsite pharmacy. Federal prosecutors said pharmacists should have questioned the high-dose, high-quantity prescriptions the nurse falsified between 2011 and 2013 and picked up purportedly on behalf of th