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Barry Cadden, center, enters court in Livingston County, Mich., Thursday, April 18, 2024. Cadden operated New England Compounding Center, a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy, which caused a national meningitis outbreak in 2012. On Thursday, the involuntary manslaughter sentencing for Cadden was suddenly postponed when lawyers looked up and saw a different judge on the bench. (Ed White/AP)

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Former Mass. lab chief sentencing for meningitis deaths postponed, extending grief of victims' families

A Michigan judge suddenly postponed the sentencing Barry Cadden, man at the center of a fatal meningitis outbreak that hit multiple states on Thursday, dismaying people who were poised to speak about their grief 12 years after the tragedy. More than 700 people in 20 states were sickened with meningitis...

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