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The Waukesha County Business Alliance recently hosted “Key Industries for Job Growth” at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel.

The U.S. stock market was on pace to add marginal gains in thin trading this morning to Thursday’s record highs.

Federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation benefits will end for about 24,000 long-term unemployed Wisconsin workers Saturday.

Kalahari Resorts and Convention Centers has named William Otto executive vice president. The longtime Marcus Hotels president will lead all operations for the Nelson family businesses in Wisconsin Dells, Sandusky, Ohio and Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania.

The Milwaukee Public Library has announced four finalists for a public art project to be erected outside its East Branch, which is slated to open in fall 2014.

The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee College of Nursing has announced a partnership with UnitedHealth Group for a new graduate program.

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