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After defeating 52 robotics teams to win the Chairman’s Award at the Midwest Regional in Chicago, a team of students from Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) has headed to St. Louis to compete in the FIRST Robotics World Championship.

The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced that the redesigned $100 note will begin circulating on Oct. 8, 2013.

The Milwaukee Brewers have launched a new feature on www.Brewers.com that will allow fans to select specific seat locations online.

On March 29, 2013, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed open records requests with the City of Milwaukee in an attempt to find out what, if anything, the City and Milwaukee Public Schools are doing about the appalling problem of the many unused school buildings that have sat idle for years.

On Wednesday, May 1, Fastsigns of Menomonee Falls will be doing business at a new location located at W173 N9170 St. Francis Drive, a former U.S. Post Office at the intersection of Shady Lane and Appleton Avenue.

Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp reported that its first quarter earnings rose 6.7 percent. Net earnings rose to $1.43 billion, or 73 cents per share, for the first quarter ended March 31, from $1.34 billion, or 67 cents per share, a year earlier.

If the state had a checklist for spring cleaning, income taxes would be on it. No one benefits from complex laws that burden individuals, small businesses, and tax collectors alike.

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc., the Pittsburgh-based parent company of PNC Bank, reported first quarter net income of $1.0 billion, or $1.76 per share, compared with $811 million, or $1.44 per share, in the same period a year ago.

Brown Deer-based Bank Mutual Corp. reported first quarter net income was $2.5 million, up 120 percent from $1.2 million the same quarter a year ago.

Associated Banc-Corp reported first quarter net income of $46 million, or 27 cents per share, up from $41 million, or 24 cents per share, in the same quarter a year ago.