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Bank profits rose in the first quarter, reaching their highest quarterly income levels since the second quarter of 2007, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) quarterly banking report released today.

A prominent political scientist recently observed that “Wisconsin is a state in turmoil.”

The Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin have awarded Arvid ‘Dick’ Tillmar, president of Tillmar Connect its 2012 Employee Benefit Agent of the Year.

National first-time jobless claims dipped by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 370,000 last week, the U.S. Labor Department reported today.

Concordia University Wisconsin and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod recently approved a resolution to acquire Concordia University Ann Arbor in Michigan.

The strong pace of existing home sales in Wisconsin continued in April, with 10 straight months of double-digit sales growth, according to the latest report by the Wisconsin Realtors Association (WRA).

The precarious futures of the Bradley Center and the Milwaukee Bucks have been the focus of many public conversations in recent weeks, and deservedly so.

Eaton Corp., a diversified power management company based in Cleveland, has acquired Dublin, Ireland-based Cooper Industries, the parent company of Cooper Power Systems in Waukesha.

Jim Spaeth, one of Serigraph's accountants, brought our quarterly report for unemployment insurance (UI) to my office Monday, and he showed me he had filed our first quarter report with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) on April 26, four days before the end-of-month deadline of April 30.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded Associated Bank a Certificate of Achievement for assisting the department and the Rural Development Guaranteed Rural Housing Program in 2011.