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Steve Wojciechowski, the new coach of the Marquette University men’s basketball team, recently purchased a home at 9611 N. Columbia Dr. in Mequon for $1.325 million, according to state records.

A groundbreaking ceremony will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 5, to celebrate the start of construction for a new 23,000-square-foot Good Harvest Market organic grocery store a quarter of a mile west of the store’s existing 12,000-square-foot store at 1850 Meadow Lane in Waukesha.

The Pleasant Prairie Plan Commission voted unanimously to support Costco Wholesale Corp.’s plans to build a 153,962-square-foot store on a 17.5-acre site at 7775 94th Ave.

After more than three years of considering plans to relocate the Milwaukee office for the FBI, the federal government could finally be near a decision about where to locate the office, sources say.

The waiter at San Antonio's Beat Street Coffee Co. Bistro held the large vintage door for a long time while my mother entered with her walker. The restaurant's hipster ambiance was just what she needed as a meal break from living with 24 other people aged 80-103 at Chandler Estate Assisted Living. Needless to say, neither Mom nor I looked like the other diners. But this waiter treated us throughout the evening as if we were his target market.

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Oshkosh Corp. today reported fiscal third quarter net income of $105.1 million, down from $148.7 million in the third quarter of 2013.

Milwaukee-based Strattec Security Corp.’s stock, which trades on the Nasdaq with the “STRT” ticker symbol, has been added to both the Russell 2000 Index and the Russell 3000 Index, which are indexes that are constructed to provide board based benchmarks for performance of many U.S. equities by market capitalization.

Milwaukee-based Sensient Technologies Corp. reported second quarter net earnings of $29.1 million, or 59 cents per share, down from $32.3 million, or 65 cents per share, in the second quarter of 2013.

The Marcus Corp. reported fiscal fourth quarter net earnings of $4.3 million, or 16 cents per share, up from $3.5 million, or 13 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.