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Grant will fund temporary jobs to assist with cleanup and recovery WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $1,220,000 grant, with $420,000 released initially, to the state of Wisconsin to help create temporary jobs to aid cleanup and recovery efforts resulting from recent flooding in central and western parts of the state. "This $1.2...

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Directors of A. O. Smith Corporation (NYSE:AOS) today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.18 per share on Common Stock and Class A Common Stock. The dividend is payable on Nov. 15 to shareholders of record Oct. 31. First Call Analyst: FCMN Contact: jpellegrino@aosmith.com Source: A. O. Smith Corporation

Member brokers of Wisconsin Association of Mortgage Brokers recognize Fairway for excellence in industry performance SUN PRAIRIE, Wis., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation, a mortgage broker/banker with over 100 branches nationwide, was recently presented with the prestigious Broker of the Year award by the Wisconsin Association of Mortgage Brokers (WAMB), at the state's annual broker convention....

Milwaukee-Based Retailer Takes Top Industry Honors for Commitment and Service to Customers MILWAUKEE, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- PTN (Photo Trade News), the business news publication for the imaging channel, announced today that Tony Miresse, owner of Art's Cameras Plus, a photo specialty store serving the Milwaukee area since 1967, has been named PTN's 2007 Dealer of the Year. The...

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Midwest Air Group, Inc. (AMEX:MEH) today reported September performance data for Midwest Airlines and Midwest Connect. Midwest Air Group, Inc. -- Performance Report ...

MADISON, Wis., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- October marks National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and sadly, more than five million people in the United States are affected by domestic violence each year. These startling statistics reflect why the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry Charitable Foundation's (AACDCF) Give Back A Smile (GBAS) program was created. Its mission: to "restore a life...

Sonic Foundry among companies inviting a record 700,000 employees to              participate in Wisconsin's largest observance   WHO:         Rimas Buinevicius, CEO and Chairman Sonic Foundry(R) Inc.                 (NASDAQ:SOFO)                   Barbara Lawton, Lt. Governor                State of Wisconsin                Wayne Corey, Executive Director                Wisconsin Independent Businesses   WHAT:        Sonic Foundry will co-host a press conference with Lt. Gov.                Barbara Lawton Thursday, October 11 to raise awareness...

APPLETON, Wis., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporation reports traffic for September 2007. Air Wisconsin operates as US Airways Express, scheduling nearly 500 departures per day to 69 cities in 26 states and two Canadian provinces. The fleet includes 70 Canadair Regional Jets. Statistics reflect Air Wisconsin's transition to a single-fleet regional jet operation in April 2006. ...

State health officials are advising consumers not to eat Banquet brandand generic store brand frozen not-ready-to-eat pot pies with “P-9”printed on the side of the package.  The pot pies may be the source ofillness due to Salmonella that has caused 19 people in Wisconsin intwelve counties, ages 3 - 79 years old, to become ill.Eighteen of the individuals have...

UW-Madison Law School medical ethicist Alta Charo recently spent a yearat the University of California at Berkeley in the epicenter of abooming biotech industry. What are the lessons for Wisconsin? How canour state keep its edge in an increasingly competitive research climate? Charo will talk about her experiences at UC-Berkeley in a freepresentation, "Tales from the Other Biotech Frontier,"...

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Promega Corporation announces availability of the second generation of its fully integrated Personal Automation™ System with a new look and new capabilities. The latest model handles a new low elution volume (LEV) format for smaller sample sizes in addition to the standard elution volume (SEV) capability. With the Maxwell 16 System, up to 16 DNA, RNA or...

Annie’s Homegrown Praises Cedar Grove’s Sustainable Practices PLAIN, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cedar Grove Cheese, a family-owned company in operation since 1878, is the first food processor in the Midwest to meet comprehensive standards for sustainable practices established by Food Alliance, a national nonprofit that provides third-party certification throughout North America. The certification assures...

Esker Announces the Availability of its White-Brand FlyDoc Online Postal Mailing MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Esker, the worldwide leader in document process automation, today announced the launch of its FlyDoc white-brand postal mailing distribution program, intended for the world players in the postal mailing market. Already used by Asterion, the Belgian Post Office,...

New online portal enables HSA custodians to offer an array of health and wealth tools for consumer-directed healthcare consumers MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metavante Corporation, the banking and payments technology subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (NYSE:MI), today announced the availability of its redesigned HSA solution. Reengineered to reflect the findings of Metavante-sponsored research...