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Exact Sciences announces around 230 layoffs, including in Wisconsin
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MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – Actual Sciences introduced round 230 staff, about 50 of whom are primarily based in Wisconsin, have been laid off Tuesday amid excessive inflation and a must prioritize particular packages.
Firm spokesperson Scott Larrivee said Thursday that these layoffs make up round 3% of the corporate’s whole workforce. The corporate employs round 7,000 staff worldwide, half of whom are primarily based in Wisconsin.
Larrivee defined that the corporate has grown quickly over the previous a number of years and has labored to enhance folks’s lives by progressive exams to detect most cancers.
“Nevertheless, headwinds like inflation in addition to a must prioritize the packages that may have the best influence on enhancing most cancers care have resulted in aligning our workforce and assets carefully to our highest influence packages,” Larrivee mentioned.
Staff who have been let go have been provided a severance package deal and different companies, he added.
He additionally mentioned that the corporate at present has an equal variety of open roles and expects to have a web constructive improve to its worker headcount by the top of the yr. Actual Sciences is encouraging its impacted staff members to use for any open choices.
“We’ll do all the things we are able to to assist our impacted teammates with utmost empathy and thoughtfulness,” Larrivee mentioned.
Lab employees and worldwide staff weren’t affected by the layoffs.
Full assertion:
Actual Sciences is dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals globally by offering progressive exams to assist detect most cancers earlier and inform higher most cancers remedy selections.
Our firm has grown quickly over the previous a number of years, each organically and thru acquisitions, and has made nice strides in attaining this mission.
Nevertheless, headwinds like inflation in addition to a must prioritize the packages that may have the best influence on enhancing most cancers care have resulted in aligning our workforce and assets carefully to our highest influence packages.
We anticipate that this may lead to a small discount of roughly 3% of our international worker base. That mentioned, we have now an equal variety of open roles and in the end count on to have a web constructive improve to worker headcount by the top of this yr.
We’ll do all the things we are able to to assist our impacted teammates with utmost empathy and thoughtfulness. All departing teammates will likely be receiving a complete severance package deal. We’ll encourage all to pursue one of many open positions and Actual Sciences will actively facilitate this course of.
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Two female students have died in a suspected murder-suicide at a residence hall at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
A spokesperson with the university confirmed with Fox News Digital that Kelsie Martin and Hallie Helms, both 22, were found with gunshot wounds at Wilgus Hall, a student residence hall, in what authorities believe to be a murder-suicide at approximately 4 p.m. local time on Monday, May 19.
Helms, an elementary education major, was pronounced dead at the scene. Martin, a psychology major and assistant resident director, was transported to Southwest Health, and then flown to UW Hospital, where she later died.
A preliminary autopsy found that Martin was determined to have died by gunshot wound, and Helms died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the school said, noting that “all indications at this time from the preliminary autopsy suggest a murder-suicide.”
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Students leave with their belongings from Wilgus Hall after a shooting at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville on Monday, May 19, 2025. (Mark Hoffman/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
The university’s police arrived at the scene following a call for a “disturbance.” Photos following the incident captured college students being escorted out of the residence halls as police investigated the incident.
The school said that “no other subjects are suspected to have been involved in the incident.”
The university canceled final exams for the remainder of the week. Counseling is being offered to the campus community, and a toll-free emotional support line is available at (844)602-6680 or (720)272-0004.
Personnel from the Wisconsin State Crime Lab are shown at Wilgus Hall after a shooting at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville on Monday, May 19, 2025. (Mark Hoffman/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
Helms graduated magna cum laude with a degree in elementary education, and Martin graduated summa cum laude with a degree in psychology on Saturday, May 17, according to the university’s graduation program.
Helms was from Baraboo, Wisconsin, and transferred to UW-Plateville in the spring of 2023 after attending UW-Baraboo.
Martin was from Beloit, Wisconsin, and had served as an assistant resident director on campus for the past three years, according to a “Student Staff Spotlight” posted by the university residence life office on Facebook.
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Students wait to be escorted to their dorms to gather their belongings from Wilgus Hall following an emergency incident at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville on May 19, 2025. (Julia Hansen/Iowa City Press-Citizen/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
The university said in a Facebook message on Tuesday, “Thank you to all who have reached out to us through messages and offered to support in so many meaningful ways. We are overwhelmed by your kindness.”
“We are a close community, and this outpouring of care is a powerful reminder of who we are. We do not take it for granted. #PioneerStrong,” they added.
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers wrote on Facebook, “I’ve been briefed on the situation at UW-Platteville, and we will continue to remain in close contact with university officials. As we await more information, please keep UW-Platteville students, faculty, staff, and the greater Platteville community in your thoughts.”
The UW-Platteville Police Department declined to comment on the incident, referring Fox News Digital to the university’s statement.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – Efforts to reduce overdose deaths appear to be working, both here in the state and around the country.
A new report from the CDC shows that the number of deaths due to drug overdoses dropped 27% in 2024, the largest one-year decline ever, some 30,000 fewer deaths.
Zeroing in on Wisconsin, the decrease was even more dramatic, more than 36%. This marks the 2nd year in a row that overdose deaths have decreased in the state after a steady rise since the pandemic.
Abby Brezinski is CEO of the Jackie Nitschke Center, the only adult residential treatment center for substance addiction in Brown County. Brezinski discusses the latest overdose numbers in the video above.
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An 11-year-old boy died after his sibling accidentally shot him on Friday, authorities said. The incident happened at a home in Racine, Wisconsin, about a half hour’s drive south of Milwaukee.
Officers went to a hospital in the area where the boy’s family had taken him to treat his gunshot wound, the Racine Police Department said in a news release. He died from his injuries, according to the department.
Police said a suspect has been “identified and apprehended” and that their investigation is ongoing.
“Racine Police investigators are interested in any additional information that anyone may have about this incident,” the department said, asking that anyone with knowledge of the shooting contact the police investigations unit or report tips anonymously through Crime Stoppers.
Hundreds of unintentional shootings by children happen every year in the United States, according to the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety, which has tracked such incidents annually since 2015. In 2023, Everytown recorded 411 unintentional shootings by children nationwide, which resulted in 158 deaths and 269 injuries. It was the highest number of incidents counted in a single year since the nonprofit started tracking them.
At the time, a study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at a two-decade rise in children’s deaths while playing with guns and found the vast majority of cases involved guns that were loaded and not securely stored. The study’s authors concluded that unintentional deaths from firearms were preventable.
Not including Friday’s incident in Racine, at least 63 unintentional shootings by children have already occurred this year, according to Everytown. They resulted in 28 deaths and 36 injuries reported in 28 states. In Wisconsin, a 6-year-old boy unintentionally shot and killed himself with a handgun on April 1 at a home in Milwaukee, the data shows.
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