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By Brian E. Clark RISING Paint companies The lead paint industry scored a major victory Monday in the first of 30-plus personal injury lawsuits brought in Wisconsin when a Milwaukee County Circuit Court jury said that paint companies weren't responsible for harm claimed by a young man's family. Another 20 similar suits are pending around the country. In a highly controversial 2005 decision that stemmed from...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com The lead paint industry scored a major victory today in the first of 30-plus personal injury lawsuits brought in Wisconsin when a Milwaukee County Circuit Court jury said that paint companies were not responsible for harm claimed by a young man's family. Another 20 similar suits are pending around the country....

WisBusiness.com Wisconsin foreclosure filings reached record highs in October according to newly released datacompiled by ForeclosuresWI.com, a leading provider of Wisconsin foreclosureresources and statistics. After rising 34 percent in 2006, another 17,013 Wisconsin homes entered the foreclosure process in the first ten months of 2007, which on average equates to 88 foreclosures filed every business day. ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scientific Games (NASDAQ:SGMS) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Autotote Enterprises, Inc. and the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin have signed a three-year deal for Autotote to supply race book venue management services at the Oneida Bingo & Casino Resort in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Oneida Casino has more than 3,200 slot machines,...

MADISON - Paul Barford has watched malicious traffic on the Internet evolve from childish pranks to a billion-dollar "shadow industry" in the last decade, and his profession has largely been one step behind the bad guys.Viruses, phishing scams, worms and spyware are only the beginning, he says."Some of the most worrisome threats today are things called 'botnets' - computers...

MADISON, WI (November 5, 2007) — DeWitt Ross & Stevens is pleased to announce the addition of Derek R. Kritzer to its Madison, Wisconsin, office.   Mr. Kritzer’s practice is focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations, real estate, securities and intellectual property law. He has handled a number of transactions involving the acquisition of hotel properties, dental practices...

Highlights include celebration of nomination of Taliesin and Taliesin West for World Heritage Site status, reunion gala, and symposium featuring international panel deliberating future of architectural education SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 300 people, including 50 former apprentices to Frank Lloyd Wright and many graduates of the architecture school that bears his name, will celebrate the...

MADISON, Wis., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quarterly dividends on preferred stock have been declared by the Board of Directors of Alliant Energy Corporation's (NYSE:LNT) utility subsidiaries. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020405/LNTLOGO) Wisconsin Power and Light Company Preferred Stock Dividends The Board of Directors of Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL) has declared dividends for its preferred stock shareowners of record...

BELOIT, Wisc., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Henry W. Knueppel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Regal Beloit Corporation (NYSE:RBC) , announced that the Board of Directors, at their regular quarterly meeting, declared a dividend of $.15 per share payable on January 16, 2008, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 28, 2007. The dividend represents...