Cudahy-based Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. announced today that it has acquired all of the outstanding stock of Central Cal Transportation, a Fresno, Calif.-based provider of intermodal transportation and related services.

Baird Capital Partners, the buyout fund of Baird Private Equity, announced today its portfolio company Digi-Star LLC of Fort Atkinson has acquired RDS Technology of the United Kingdom.

WPS Health Insurance said as many as 600 employees will lose their jobs over the next year, primarily in Monona and Wausau, because of contract losses.

The Salvation Army of Milwaukee County is kick starting its Red Kettle Christmas Campaign today with a goal to raise $3 million dollars to support more than 80 programs and services including meals to the homeless, care to seniors and veterans, and emergency shelter and emergency disaster relief.

The performance by the equity markets in October was in line with expectations as the presidential election cycle made its presence felt.

BMO Harris Bank has donated a $35,000 grant to the Zoological Society of Milwaukee to benefit its conservation programs, public education initiatives and support of the Milwaukee County Zoo, the bank announced Thursday.

Eugene Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and nationally known columnist for The Washington Post, will present the keynote address at “An Evening to Promote Racial Justice.”

Marquette University has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Grand Challenges Explorations through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help fund a partnership between the university and the New York Times called FixesU.

The United Way of Greater Milwaukee's Executive Committee voted to make an immediate $25,000 grant to the American Red Cross in Southeastern Wisconsin, funding which will help the organization deploy volunteers to the East Coast to help in the Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.

Helen Bader Foundation Inc., a Milwaukee-based philanthropic organization dedicated to youth, aging and workforce development for-at risk community members, has awarded 20 workforce development organizations throughout greater Milwaukee a total of $855,000, the foundation announced Wednesday.

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BizTimes Media today announced the recipients of its 2012 Health Care Heroes Awards.