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Conshohocken-Plymouth Meeting, PA
Business
Security Company Laying Off Dozens Of Workers In Conshohocken Amid Corporate Overhaul Security Company Laying Off Dozens Of Workers In Conshohocken Amid Corporate Overhaul
Security Company Laying Off Dozens Of Workers In Conshohocken Amid Corporate Overhaul A major security company is planning to cut dozens of jobs in Montgomery County amid a restructuring effort, officials said. Allied Universal Security Services will lay off 72 corporate employees, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. The layoffs will impact staff at the company's office at 161 Washington Street in Conshohocken. A company spokesperson said Allied Universal is centralizing and standardizing its business processes to boost efficiency and focus on it…

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by Chris Spiker
Towson, MD
Lifestyle
Here's How Returning Jeopardy! Champion From Baltimore Fared In Second Show Here's How Returning Jeopardy! Champion From Baltimore Fared In Second Show
Here's How Returning Jeopardy! Champion From Baltimore Fared In Second Show She flew too close to the sun. There is a new Jeopardy! champion after a librarian from Maryland fell to a Seattle software engineer in her second show. Mikey McCullough, a metadata librarian and data curator at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville landed in third place on Wednesday's show, one day after earning championship status with a $18,200 win. McCullough ended the show on Wednesday, Nov. 20 with a $2,000 total, behind a writer from Los Angeles, who finished with $3,000 and new champion Mehal Shah's $9,799. She had an outside shot going into the Final Jeopardy question, …

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by Zak Failla
Rivertowns, NY
News
Tens Of Thousands Raised For Seriously Injured 16-Year-Old Struck By Car In Dobbs Ferry Tens Of Thousands Raised For Seriously Injured 16-Year-Old Struck By Car In Dobbs Ferry
Tens Of Thousands Raised For Seriously Injured 16-Year-Old Struck By Car In Dobbs Ferry Community members are coming together to raise tens of thousands of dollars to help a 16-year-old boy who was seriously injured while crossing a busy intersection in Westchester. The outpouring of support was prompted by an incident on Monday, March 4 at around 7:45 p.m., when 16-year-old Jacob Klugerman was struck by a cab while crossing the northbound Saw Mill River Parkway in Dobbs Ferry at the Lawrence Street intersection.  Earlier Report - 16-Year-Old Seriously Injured After Being Struck By Cab On Parkway In Dobbs Ferry   Klugerman a high school sophomore from…

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by Ben Crnic
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
News
NJ Professor Nailed These 'Jeopardy!' Questions: Can You? NJ Professor Nailed These 'Jeopardy!' Questions: Can You?
NJ Professor Nailed These 'Jeopardy!' Questions: Can You? Brianne Barker has returned to "Jeopardy!" for the Champions Wildcard Tournament Friday, Dec. 1. The Drew University biology department chair from Madison was one of 105 past winners called up to play against each other. Barker's prior episodes aired in July 2022. Barker — who is Harvard and Duke educated — was seated on a beach in Mexico when producers called, she said.  She played in the Hearts Group against Bryce Hwang, an ophthalmology resident from Philadelphia, and Garett Marcotte, a software engineer from Colorado. Here are some of the questions that Barker…

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by Cecilia Levine
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Obituaries
Beloved Parsippany Software Engineer Willian Hua Dies After Brief Illness, 28 Beloved Parsippany Software Engineer Willian Hua Dies After Brief Illness, 28
Beloved Parsippany Software Engineer Willian Hua Dies After Brief Illness, 28 Beloved Parsippany software engineer Willian Hua died at St. Clare’s Hospital in Denville on Jan. 9 after a brief illness at the age of 28. Born in Livingston, Hua grew up in Lake Hiawatha and graduated from Parsippany High School in 2011, his obituary says. Hua later attended the College of New Jersey, where he earned a Bachelor’s in computer science, according to his memorial. Hua worked as a front-end developer and software engineer with Texas-based company Cognizant Technology Solutions. “Willian Hua always gave his all when helping others: designing his church’s website, assisting i…

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by Valerie Musson
Rye, NY
Obituaries
Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar
Rye Native Dr. Louis Barton Was A True Scholar Longtime Westchester resident Dr. Louis Wyatt Gunn Barton died in late August at Little Farm, his home of 40 years in Ocie, MO.  Dr. Barton, age 72, was a lifelong student with prodigious academic successes. He was top student and class president at George School, and he graduated magna cum laude from Yale. He studied for masters degrees at Harvard and MIT and earned a doctoral degree in Software Engineering from Oxford University in England.  During his Oxford years, he suffered from ill health and did most of his studying at his home in Ocie. Oxford made an extraordinary deci…

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by Daily Voice
Elizabeth, NJ
Police & Fire
$10K Reward Offered In Deadly NJ Shooting Of 24-Year-Old Software Engineer $10K Reward Offered In Deadly NJ Shooting Of 24-Year-Old Software Engineer
$10K Reward Offered In Deadly NJ Shooting Of 24-Year-Old Software Engineer UPDATE: A Perth Amboy man was charged with the shooting death of a 24-year-old Union software engineer, authorities announced Friday. ORIGINAL STORY BELOW: A $10,000 reward is being offered for information in the shooting death of a 24-year-old Union software engineer, authorities announced. Isaiah Spicer was found with serious injuries on the 1200 block of Coolidge Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Union County Prosecutor William Daniel and Union Township Police Director Daniel Zieser said. He was subsequently pronounced dead. Spicer's social media pages show he studied comput…

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by Cecilia Levine
Edison, NJ
News
Authorities ID Edison Commuter Struck, Killed By NJ Transit Train Authorities ID Edison Commuter Struck, Killed By NJ Transit Train
Authorities ID Edison Commuter Struck, Killed By NJ Transit Train Authorities have identified the man struck and killed by a New Jersey Transit train as a 37-year-old father from Edison. Praveen Desini was hit just east of the Edison station about 7:20 a.m. on Tuesday by Manhattan-bound Northeast Corridor train 3920, NJ Transit officials said. Desini was en route to the train station to commute to his job in New York when he was struck in a tragic accident, according to a GoFundMe.com page set up to raise money for his cremation expenses. The married father of a 2-year-old son, Desini was described on the fundraising page as a “good husband, best dad to …

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by Jon Craig