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Regent Michael Falbo of Franklin was elected president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and Regent Regina Millner of Madison was elected to serve as vice president of the board.

A judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware approved the final sale of Waukesha's Golden Guernsey Dairy LLC to Morton Grove, Ill.-based Lifeway Foods Inc.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans announced that its membership approved an extension of its common bond, allowing it to serve more Christians.

Unless Congress acts, on July 1, the interest rate for 159,147 student loan borrowers in Wisconsin will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, according to a report by WISPIRG (Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group), a nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest advocacy organization.

U.S. regulators last week filed suit against U.S. Bank for allegedly facilitating the embezzlement of customer funds by the jailed founder of Peregrine Financial Group Inc., the collapsed futures brokerage.
 

The effort to establish Milwaukee as a global hub of freshwater research, technology and innovation received another boost today when Kikkoman Foods Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Kikkoman Corp., announced that it will make a $1 million contribution to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to, “advance the study of safe and sustainable drinking water.”

Most people reading this have never tweeted. (You included?) On the off chance that you have tweeted, my guess is you have less than 5,000 Twitter followers – maybe less than 500.

Husco International announced today it is embarking on a multi-year, $45 million capital expansion project at its Wisconsin facilities in Waukesha and Whitewater, an endeavor that is expected to create more than 150 permanent new jobs in the state by 2015.

Gallup's U.S. Job Creation Index increased to 22 in May, the highest score for any month since April 2008.
 

National innovation speaker Adam Hartung will host an innovation workshop for manufacturing executives on Wednesday, June 26 from 9...