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Telisa Yancy has been named the president of Madison-based American Family Insurance Group of companies.

Dr. Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy's board of directors has named Marcus Robinson, Ph.D., as the first chief executive officer of the public charter high school on Milwaukee' northwest side.

Johnson Controls announced that Lei Schlitz has been named president of its Global Products business.

A biotech startup spun out of the Medical College of Wisconsin says it has discovered a new way to treat diabetes.

Kenosha Area Business Alliance president Todd Battle will leave the organization at the end of the year to take a role with Milwaukee-based real estate development firm Zilber Property Group.

Tim Sullivan, the former CEO of REV Group, Gardner Denver and Bucyrus International, is donating $1 million to Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha to support the school's plans to expand by purchasing the Infinity Fields Baseball Park complex in Waukesha.

Most of the economic indicators tracked by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce improved in September, according to the MMAC’s latest economic trends report.

Chicago-based Pilot Project Brewing is on track to open its new Milwaukee location next Friday. The brewery incubator acquired both the old Milwaukee Brewing Company facility at 1128 N. 9th St. and the Bottlehouse 42 restaurant in September.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced Friday that it will be pursuing a plan to expand the six-lane I-94 East-West freeway between 16th Street and 70th Street in Milwaukee to eight lanes.

The Milwaukee County Transit System on Thursday celebrated the arrival of its first battery electric bus.