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Pharma Giant Cutting 400+ More North Jersey Jobs Ahead Of Major Drug Patent's Expiration
Pharmaceutical company Novartis is laying off more than 400 US employees who report to its East Hanover facility as part of a restructuring effort tied to shifts in its cardiovascular drug portfolio. Novartis disclosed the 427 layoffs in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) and a spokesperson confirmed the job cuts to the Daily Voice on Tuesday, Mar. 18. The layoffs will take place between Friday, June 13 and Friday, Oct. 24. The Swiss drugmaker with about 78,000 employees globally is adjusting its commercial model ahead of the upcoming loss of ex…
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Pharmaceutical Company Laying Off 290 Central Jersey Workers Amid Massive Cost-Cutting Push
Nearly 300 employees in Lawrenceville will lose their jobs as part of a pharmaceutical company's major cost-cutting measures, officials said. Bristol Myers Squibb will lay off at least 290 employees in 2025, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice in February. A company spokesperson confirmed the layoffs to the Daily Voice on Monday, Mar. 3. The company will begin 223 of those layoffs on Thursday, May 22, and continue them through Friday, Aug. 1. "We are optimizing operations across the company while prioritizing investments in innovative and t…
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Widow Taking Legal Action After Scientist Husband Was Killed At NJ Intersection
A New Jersey widow is taking legal action to obtain additional details from a New Jersey police department in the crash that killed her 32-year-old husband last fall. Matthew H. Bunner, a scientist with Bristol Myers Squibb and a University of Pennsylvania graduate, was out for a walk when he was struck and killed by a 66-year-old driver in East Brunswick at about 8:15 p.m. on Sept. 1, 2023, according to the police report and his obituary. The crash occurred near the intersection of Cranbury Road and Henley Drive Bunner was stepping into the crosswalk from the center grassy m…
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Mercer County Engineer, 25, Killed In Wrong-Way Massachusetts Crash
A 25-year-old engineer from Mercer County was killed this week by a wrong-way driver in Massachusetts, where she lived and worked, police said. Geetika Guruprasad, of West Windsor, died just after 12:45 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, in Littleton, a suburb of Boston. Guruprasad was driving her Mazda CX-5 on Route 2 when an SUV traveling on the wrong side of the road collided with her, Massachusetts State Police said. Paramedics rushed her to Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, where doctors pronounced her dead. The 22-year-old driver of the Chevrolet SUV was also se…
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: Local NJ Police Try To Convince Man To Drop Sword Before Shooting Him
"Patrick, drop it," a New Jersey police officer says in a calm, steady voice, pleading several times with a man wielding a 3-foot sword to surrender. "Listen to me, I know you're going through some...," the officer says before his voice rises. "Patrick drop it! Get on the ground! Get on the ground!" he screams. "Drop the knife!" Then four shots are heard. The confrontation in Somerset County early last fall lasted barely a minute. About an hour and 20 minutes later, Patrick Chin, 43, was pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. The comman…
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AG: Hillsborough Man Wielded 3-Foot-Long Sword Before Being Pepper-Sprayed, Shot By Police
A Hillsborough man was holding a three-foot-long sword when he was pepper-sprayed and then shot and killed by police at his home last month, New Jersey's top law enforcement official said Monday. Five uniformed Hillsborough officers responding to a request for a welfare check went to the Piedmont Path home where Patrick Chin, 43, and his new bride lived at 4:10 p.m. Sept. 28, Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. "When the officers arrived, they encountered Mr. Chin inside the home holding an approximately three-foot long sword," Bruck said. "During the encounter, Officer George …
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