Twitter is laying off up to 336 workers

Twitter is laying off up to 336 workers

SAN FRANCISCO

Twitter is laying off up to 336 employees, signaling CEO Jack Dorsey’s resolve to slash costs while the company struggles to make money.

The cutbacks announced Tuesday could equate to about 8 percent of Twitter’s workforce of 4,100 people.

The purge comes two weeks after Twitter brought back one of its co-founders as permanent CEO in hopes that Dorsey would be able to resolve problems that have slowed user growth at the messaging service and compounded an uninterrupted cycle of financial losses.

Cutting costs can boost profits but at Twitter, it has also raised uncertainty about the future, the company’s pursuit of faster growth and its ability to attract a bigger audience.

Chief: No evidence for murder charge

memphis, tenn.

An off-duty officer was not taking “official police action” when he was killed in a shootout with a neighbor, and there is not enough evidence to charge the neighbor with murder, a police chief said Tuesday.

Police Director Toney Armstrong told reporters that witnesses gave authorities different stories about what happened when the officer, who was on his way to work, “exchanged words” with his neighbor, Lorenzo Clark, 36. It is not clear what the two men were talking about when the conversation escalated or who fired the first shot, Armstrong said.

Officer Terence Olridge, 31, died after the shootout Sunday afternoon.

Gun shop ordered to pay millions to cops

MILWAUKEE

Jurors ordered a Wisconsin gun shop to pay nearly $6 million Tuesday to two Milwaukee police officers who were shot and seriously wounded by a gun purchased at the store.

The ruling came in a negligence lawsuit filed by the officers against Badger Guns, a shop in suburban Milwaukee that authorities have linked to hundreds of firearms found at crime scenes. The lawsuit alleges the store ignored several warning signs that the gun was being sold to a “straw buyer,” or someone who was buying a gun for someone who couldn’t legally do so.

Calif. retracts plan on inmate firemen

SACRAMENTO, CALIF.

California corrections officials are dropping a proposal to allow prisoners with violent backgrounds to work in the state’s inmate firefighting unit, a day after The Associated Press reported on the proposal.

Corrections department spokesman Jeffrey Callison tells the AP Tuesday that the state still plans to expand the program to include inmates who have up to seven years left to serve on their sentences, instead of the current five years.

The union representing state firefighters was among the groups that raised public safety concerns over including inmates convicted of violent crimes.

Trump to host ‘SNL’

NEW YORK

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will host NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” next month, calling it a “great honor.”

Trump told Fox News Channel on Tuesday that he and NBC settled their beauty pageant “dust-up” and have moved on.

In June, NBC said it would end its business relationship with Trump because of comments he made during the announcement of his presidential campaign about Mexican immigrants. The network dropped the annual Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, which had been a joint venture between it and Trump.

NBC said Tuesday that its former “Celebrity Apprentice” host will be the headliner of the Nov. 7 show.

Associated Press