for $130 million, the company announced Thursday.
The transaction, once it’s completed, will transfer Richmond, Va.-based Insmed’s research and production facility in Boulder to Merck. The Boulder plant’s 80 employees will be offered jobs to continue their work under Merck’s ownership, Insmed said.
Insmed geared its Boulder plant over the past 18 months to produce alternate versions of established biotech drugs.
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CORAL Gables, Fla. –
An ongoing investigation involving the sales of illegal drugs resulted in two arrests at a University of Miami fraternity house.
The Coral Gables Police Department Special Investigations Section’s Vice, Intelligence and Narcotics unit in conjunction with the University of Miami Police Department executed a search warrant Thursday at the ZETA BETA TAU fraternity house.
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A San Luis Obispo man was arrested late Friday after police say he sold cocaine and Ecstacy to undercover officers at a downtown nightclub.
David Michael Lamberson, 36, was arrested about 11:30 p.m. in the 700 block of Higuera Street. Officers from the San Luis Obispo County Narcotics Task Force, who arrested Lamberson after a two-month investigation, said he had been selling the drugs at clubs in downtown San Luis Obispo.
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was one of the first to be eliminated from last season’s Dancing With the Stars, but her shock early departure actually inspired the reality starlet to whip her famous figure into becoming even more fabulous and create her own fitness DVD.
“After DWTS I saw what good shape everyone else was getting in and I wanted to be right there. I didn’t stay in the competition long enough to hit that Dancing With the Stars diet so I just started Read the rest of this entry »

Hope Mills, N.C. —
A Hope Mills woman has been charged with selling drugs prescribed to her for a disability, authorities said Friday.
Cumberland County investigators said Deshana Maria Melvin, 33, of 4038 William Bill Luther Drive, sold her medications to undercover agents. She was charged with three counts each of trafficking of opium or heroin and conspiring to traffic in opium or heroin, and she was being held Friday in the Cumberland Read the rest of this entry »

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – A Clay County father said he wants answers after his daughter and two other kids at her elementary school were accused of selling drugs and facing possible punishment all over some Vitamin C drops.
The 9-year-old girl told Channel 4 that she thinks of things like cigarettes as drugs, and she was confused when her teacher told her Halls are also considered a drug.
Fourth-grade student Khalin Rivenbark said her teacher accused Read the rest of this entry »

,
student.
, of
, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in January to one count of conspiracy to distribute drugs resulting in the death of a juvenile.
According to her plea agreement, Harris and her boyfriend,
, of
, sold drugs that Harris had obtained by prescription.
In July 2007, she sold some methadone pills to 17-year-old Harry Angle III, who died that night of methadone and alcohol intoxication.
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Two people were arrested after the execution of a search warrant revealed they were selling drugs near an elementary school.
Charlotte County deputies say it was a reported incident in a nearby neighborhood that led to a search warrant at a Port Charlotte residence Thursday afternoon.
There, deputies with the Narcotics Unit had been involved an in ongoing investigation.
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DANBURY — Two men are being held on $150,000 bond after they were charged Friday for dealing cocaine and crack cocaine from a silver pickup truck, according to police.
The Special Investigations Division of the police department received information that two men were selling drugs from a vehicle.
Detectives stopped the men on South Street at 4 p.m., police said.
Darren Ridgeway, 41, of Danbury, and Michael Chowka III, 34, of Waterbury, were Read the rest of this entry »

Del. man gets 17 years for selling drugs, ID theft
,
man has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for dealing cocaine and his involvement in an identity theft scheme.
, who was sentenced Tuesday in
, must also forfeit more than $40,000 seized from his home last year.
In October,
pleaded guilty to selling more than 110 pounds of cocaine and more than 3 pounds of crack cocaine. According to his plea, Dennis and 38-year-old
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