DuPont Co. to eliminate 3% of its workforce \nPHILADELPHIA -- DuPont Co. will eliminate at least 2,500 jobs companywide, about 3 percent of its work force, as part of cost-cutting plans announced last year, a union leader said Friday.\nThe nation's largest chemical company has not yet made the cuts official, but plans to make an announcement Monday, said David J. Gibson, president of Local 1186 of the International Brotherhood of DuPont Workers, which represents hourly workers at DuPont's Marshall Laboratory in Philadelphia. He said he expected some of the 450 union and nonunion workers at the Philadelphia laboratory to lose their jobs.\nIn December, the Wilmington, Del.-based company announced plans to trim $900 million in costs over the next two years by cutting jobs, streamlining product lines and making other changes.
Police: Former Enron CEO might be disturbed\nNEW YORK -- Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was taken to a Manhattan hospital early Friday after several people called police saying he was pulling on their clothes and accusing them of being FBI agents, a police source told The Associated Press.\nPolice found Skilling at 4 a.m. at the corner of Park Avenue and East 73rd Street and determined he might be an "emotionally disturbed person," said the source, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity.\nPolice did not charge Skilling with a crime. They took him to New York Presbyterian Hospital for observation. Hospital officials would only say that Skilling had been discharged from the hospital Friday.\nMessages left for Skilling's lawyers, Bruce Hiler and Dan Petrocelli, were not immediately returned.
