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The percentage of U.S. homeowners who are at least two months behind on their mortgage payments fell in the third quarter to 4.09 percent, the lowest delinquency rate since the third quarter of 2008.

Direct Media USA, a privately held, out-of-home advertising company based in the Boston area, has been awarded the $3.6 million, five-year contract for transit advertising on the roughly 400 buses in the Milwaukee County Transit System fleet.

Brewers Community Foundation (BCF) and the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club raised more than $2.8 million during the 2013 season, with support coming from Brewers ownership, fans, players and sponsors, along with special events throughout the year.

The community of Port Washington released a collective sigh of relief with the recent announcement that Allen Edmonds Shoe Corp. will be sold to a private equity firm that is committing to keep the company's headquarters, its employees, its production and its leadership team intact.

Fiserv Inc., a Brookfield-based global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that its board of directors has declared a two-for-one stock split of Fiserv common stock and a proportionate increase in the number of its authorized shares of common stock.

Milwaukee-based International Thermal Systems has acquired the business assets of Continental Equipment Corporation, also in Milwaukee.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average clung to minor gains this morning after closing Thursday for the first time in history above the 16,000 mark.

*Friday, Nov. 22, the City of Glendale and Bayshore Town Center will celebrate the eighth annual Tree Lighting Ceremony...