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Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade has donated a lead gift to Marquette University’s Ralph C. Hartman Literacy and Learning Center to launch a summer reading program that will bear his name.

Retail spending over the Thanksgiving weekend fell 11 percent, its second consecutive annual decline, according to National Retail Federation.

The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Delafield Clinic opened on Monday, giving patients and families in Waukesha County a more convenient place to receive quality health care.

The Milwaukee Brewers announced a four-year player development contract extension with the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers of the Midwest League through the 2020 season.

The Goddard School will celebrate the grand opening of its second Wisconsin facility during a public event on Saturday.

The metropolitan Milwaukee area averaged 855,000 nonfarm jobs in October, up 2.3 percent over October 2013, which outpaces both state (1.2 percent) and national (2 percent) job gains over the same time period, according to a new report from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.

The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater College of Business & Economics and BizStarts, will host a free breakfast series, “Entrepreneurship Over Easy” for Wisconsin business professionals and entrepreneurs.

Ryan Murray, former deputy secretary and chief operating officer of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, has been appointed partner of The Firm Consulting, a Madison-based government affairs agency.