LONDON — Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbs. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who also leads its parent company Alphabet, informed staff ...
TACOMA, Wash. — When the pandemic hit in 2020, Debbie Wilkerson decided to retire early from her job at Jack-in-the-Box. But it wasn’t really by choice, said the 64-year-old Tacoma resident. With schools shut down, she needed to home-school her 13-year-old grandson, James Carcione, who is on the autism spectrum, while her son continued to go to work. Already struggling under a crush of debt — a hodgepodge of overdue bills, collection calls, court fines — the Wilkerson family’s financial precarity worsened during the pandemic. They made just $22 too much each month to ...
MANSFIELD — Daniel Patton has been hired as the director of engineering for Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative. Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative, with headquarters in Mansfield, provides electricity to nearly 20,000 meters in Tioga, Potter, Bradford, Lycoming, McKean, Cameron and ...
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Phillip Slaughter left the Army after 18 years and found a job similar to one he had in uniform: behind the wheel of a truck. Instead of towing food and bullets through war zones, he hauled packages for FedEx. It wasn’t what he wanted to do. The work aggravated his ...
WILLIAMSPORT — Marshall, Parker & Weber, LLC, an elder law and estate planning law firm, has been named as a “Best Law Firm” in Elder Law for 2023 by U.S. News — Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” This is the 10th consecutive year that the firm has received a “Best Law Firms” ...
HOWARD — WoodmenLife Chapter 691 held a Fall Awards Banquet at the Nittany Valley Fire Hall in Lamar on Oct. 8, 2022. More than 70 chapter members attended the banquet and enjoyed a delicious meal provided by the fire company volunteers. Chapter President Michael Frank welcomed the ...
