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Demand for steel sinks amid recession By Aoife White AP Business Writer Brussels — ArcelorMittal SA, the world’s largest steel maker, reported Wednesday its first ever quarterly loss — at $2.6 billion — during the fourth quarter as it wrote ...

Rockwell to speed expansion into Canada with Rutter Hinz buy Milwaukee (AP) —Rockwell Automation Inc., Milwaukee, agreed to a buy the majority of the assets of Rutter Hinz Inc., a Canadian company with engineering expertise in the oil and gas ...

Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com Murphy Oil USA Inc.’s $6 billion refinery expansion is slipping through Superior’s fingers. On top of that, the city’s port-based economy, which annually moves about 22 million metric tons of coal, is bracing for the drop in ...

By Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Milwaukee’s proposed sick-leave law might be tangled in court for as long as two years. And in two years the Common Council and mayor could opt to work toward its repeal. Sangita Nayak, lead organizer for ...

By Robert G. Sheridan Dolan Media Newswires Rochester, NY – Every night for the past year we went home, watched the local news or read the newspaper and scratched our heads. Media reported chaos related to subprime loans and property ...

By Mike Salsgiver Dolan Media Newswires Portland, OR – There is a lot of activity geared toward stimulating the economy these days. Governments are throwing cash on the table to keep people working and they are investing in public and ...

By Matt Pommer The boldest idea of the Democrats’ economic stimulus plan has been to provide complete, federally funded Medicaid coverage for those who lose jobs during the recession. In Wisconsin about 95 percent of residents have some form of ...

Washington — A contractor who once worked for the Treasury Department was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for bribing a government official with $55,000 to win construction contracts. Daniel Money, 44, of Shady Side, Md., was sentenced ...

London — Tokyo has already secured $4 billion to pay for construction of venues for the 2016 Olympics despite the global economic downturn, a leader of the Japanese bid said Thursday. Hidetoshi Maki, deputy director of the Tokyo 2016 bid ...

Biomass boiler to be installed in coal plant that heats UW-Madison Madison (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle says he wants to install a new biomass boiler at a coal-burning power plant in downtown Madison by 2012. The state agreed last ...