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SportsMILWAUKEE, Wis. — The Milwaukee Bucks try to end a seven-game losing streak Wednesday, Nov. 11, when they host the Los Angeles Lakers at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. Tipoff is at 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT), with local coverage on Spectrum SportsNet, WCGV and…
SportsMILWAUKEE, Wis. — Brewers manager Pat Murphy has become the first manager in baseball history to win a Manager of the Year award three years in a row, collecting the National League honor Tuesday night, Nov. 10, from a Milwaukee hospital bed where he is…
Education
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Assata High School, an alternative school that has served Milwaukee students at risk of not graduating for 34 years, will shut down permanently on Nov. 30, less than three weeks from now. Principal Carlotta Pritchett told families about the closing in a letter sent home this week.…
From Merger Monday
Archrock Inc., which rents out the compressors that move natural gas through Permian Basin pipelines, agreed to buy HiVolt Energy Holdings LLC for up to $450 million in cash, betting that the oil patch’s next bottleneck is electricity. Houston-based Archrock will pay $415 million at closing, subject to adjustments, plus up…
From Merger Monday
Oura, the Finnish-born maker of the Oura Ring, agreed to buy Counsel Health for $625 million in cash, moving from tracking its members’ health toward treating them. Counsel combines a medical chat assistant with its own board-certified physicians, who can step into a conversation to diagnose, prescribe and refer. Its service…
From Merger Monday
Mercor, the San Francisco startup that pays human experts to train and grade artificial-intelligence models, raised $750 million in a Series D round that values it at $20 billion, double its price tag of a year ago. The company didn’t name a lead investor. Nvidia, Salesforce and Zoom Communications joined as…
Politics
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Milwaukee County Board Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson-Bovell entered the race for Milwaukee County executive on Monday, Nov. 9, days after County Executive David Crowley was elected governor of Wisconsin. Nicholson-Bovell, 38, first won a seat on the County Board in 2016 and has led the board as chair…
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