Allergan continues to acquire companies

Allergan, the Ireland-based pharmaceutical giant with a plant in Waco scheduled to receive a $200 million expansion, continued a multimonth spending spree on Monday by announcing deals with smaller companies pursuing treatments for neurological disorders and diseases of the digestive tract. The company last year broke ground on a 322,000-square-foot addition to its Waco facility at 8301 Mars Drive, a move aimed at increasing manufacturing space that could create 100 full-time jobs in the near future and eventually 250 more when production approaches capacity.

Sally Field thinking of Carrie Fisher with ‘heart and soul’

Fisher has repo… . A gathering of media personnel camp outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, where TMZ and the Los Angeles Times reported actress Carrie Fisher had been taken after suffering a medical … Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill of “Star Wars” fame are among many who have expressed hope that the 60-year-old Fisher recovers after suffering a medical emergency on a flight and being admitted Friday to a Los Angeles hospital.

Dramatic audio released of Carrie Fisher emergency call

The pilot of the plane carrying actress Carrie Fisher as she suffered a medical emergency told air traffic control, “We have an unresponsive passenger,” according to audio from the flight. The audio, which was released on Saturday by LiveATC.net and obtained by the Reuters news agency, offered insight into events as they unfolded during Fisher’s medical emergency on Friday.