Madison-based Intuitive Biosciences Inc announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire the animal health and research tools assets and businesses of Gentel Biosciences, another Madison biotechnology company.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2012.

Intuitive makes serological tests for animal health, and research and testing tools for the pharmaceutical, contract research organizations, and academic research markets.

Federal energy regulators may ratchet down on incentives they have in place to build high-voltage power lines, a research analyst said Tuesday.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is considering proposals to reduce the rate of return, or profit, that utilities receive from building power lines.

Most utility rates are decided by state utility commissions, including the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin. The PSC regulates electric and natural gas utilities like We Energies, as well as local water utilities.

An Eagle Elementary school student who says he saw Bigfoot in the woods behind his school likely saw just the groundskeeper, police said.

The 9-year-old boy and his father went to the Village of Eagle Police Department at about 5 p.m. May 8 to file a report about possible suspicious activity behind the school. The boy told his father he had seen Bigfoot in the woods behind the school that evening. The boy told police that he and a friend had been playing near the woods, and although he didn't see the creature in its entirety, he stated that he had seen a leg that belonged to the beast.

An officer dispatched to the school found several adults and children playing in the field, but nothing out of the ordinary.

When is "two" a crowd when it comes to fishing? When one is a bear.

A great story emerged Tuesday from Duluth, where Dominique Bowens of Duluth was fishing on the south pier in the city's shipping canal.

According to the account in the Duluth News Tribune, lift bridge supervisor Ryan Beamer saw a bear walking on the pier and used a loudspeaker to warn Bowens.

Delinquent mortgages continued to decrease in Wisconsin in the first quarter, a report Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association shows.

TiqIQ.com is an event ticket aggregator that analyzes the sports and entertaintment markets around the country.

We asked them to take a look at the rest of the Milwaukee Brewers home schedule to gauge where ticket prices are going on the secondary market.

The firm looked at so-called get-in prices. That is the cheapest ticket in the market.

Health care costs are projected to reach $20,728 this year for a family of four insured through the most common health plan offered by employers, according to the annual Milliman Medical Index.

A 23-year-old Milwaukee man who was shopping with his girlfriend was arrested for retail theft after trying to steal a box of a male enhancement product in St. Francis last week.

According to the police report:

The man shoplifted a box of maximum strength climax control male genital desensitizer gel from Pick ‘n Save, 4698 S. Whitnall Ave., about 6:35 p.m. May 10.

Town of Lisbon - Colgate Road, which for decades served Lisbon residents as a north-south connector road to Highway Q, will be closed permanently sometime between June 5 and June 15.

The road will be closed about a mile south of Highway Q at the Canadian National Railway vehicle crossing which has been ordered shut down by state railroad authorities.

Town Administrator Jeff Musche said according to the railroad commissioner's order Canadian National must close the crossing within 10 days prior to June 15.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett accused Gov. Scott Walker of attempting to "cook the books" to make Wisconsin's economy look better than it is.

Donald Driver knows the agony of going 15-1 and going home without the Lombardi Trophy.

Similarly, all the effort he put into “Dancing With the Stars” will mean nothing if the Green Bay Packers wide receiver does not receive enough votes from fans to move him into next week’s finals.

At the end of Monday’s semifinals, Driver and partner Peta Murgatroyd were in a familiar place, stuck in third, while other dancers received higher scores and effusive praise.

New Berlin police are asking the public for help to locate a missing developmentally disabled man.

Gov. Mark Dayton on Monday signed off on a hard-fought agreement to build the Minnesota Vikings a $975 million stadium at the downtown Minneapolis site of the team's current home, the Metrodome.

New York -- The Brewers announced today that shortstop Alex Gonzalez will have surgery Thursday to repair the torn ACL in his right knee. The procedure will be performed in Milwaukee by team physician William Raasch.

Gonzalez tore his ACL sliding into second base in San Francisco on the Brewers' last road trip. He is out for the remainder of the season.

No surgery date has been set yet for first baseman Mat Gamel, who tore the ACL in his right knee four days before Gonzalez while chasing after a foul pop fly in San Diego. Assistant general manager Gord Ash tells me that Gamel still has too much swelling to schedule surgery but the team hopes to do so next week.

Gov. Mark Dayton on Monday signed off on a hard-fought agreement to build the Minnesota Vikings a $975 million stadium at the downtown Minneapolis site of the team's current home, the Metrodome.

A man who was 15 when he beat a man repeatedly with a hammer, then stabbed 35 times with a scissors was found guilty Monday of a lesser charge of second-degree intentional homicide.

A 53-year-old Mequon man was arrested for disorderly conduct after being told the Thiensville restaurant at which he was dining ran out of fish for its all-you-can-eat fish fry last week.

According to the police report:

The man had already consumed 12 pieces of fish around 7:40 p.m. Friday when informed the restaurant had run out and could not substitute any other fish.

Jason Inc., a global automotive components manufacturer based in Milwaukee, said that Janesville Acoustics has opened a 90,000-square-foot plant in central Mexico.

Janesville Acoustics, based Southfield, Mich., makes acoustical and thermal fiber insulation and molded fiber products for the automotive and transportation industry.

The Janesville Acoustics plant in Celaya, Guanajuato, will support the growing automotive industry in the region, the company said.

Oconomowoc Lake - Republican Gov. Scott Walker continued Monday to hammer away at his Democratic rival in the recall election, saying Wisconsin would be taking a major step backward if Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett wins on June 5.

Sounding familiar themes, Walker said he has saved state taxpayers more than $1 billion with his reforms, which included curbs on collective bargaining for most public employees, and that property taxes paid by homeowners, small businesses and other have declined with him as governor.

At a news conference at Vic's Carpet & Flooring, Walker said he expected job creation take off if he wins the recall but to slide if Barrett wins. Employers are holding off on job creation until after the recall, Walker said, because they are concerned that their taxes will rise if Barrett were elected.

The Chicago Bears agreed to contracts with seven rookie free agents, including quarterback Matt Blanchard of UW-Whitewater.

Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun appears to have parted ways with CytoSport, the company that makes sports-oriented nutritional products or supplements.

It could not be determined when Braun stopped working with the company. Emails and phone calls to the company were not returned. Braun's agent, Nez Balelo, did not respond to a request for comment, either.

On the firm's website, Braun's name has been removed.

Madison - State wildlife officials are looking for volunteers to help count a rare butterfly this summer.

The Department of Natural Resources plans to conduct a population survey of the Karner blue butterfly from June through August. The postage stamp-sized butterfly is on the federal endangered species list. Populations have been identified in the White River, Greenwood, and Meadow Valley wildlife areas, Mecan River Fishery Area and Black River State Forest.

The DNR will offer training for Karner blue counters on at the Wild Rose Hatchery Education Center in Wild Rose on May 22 and at the Black River Falls Service Center in Black River Falls on May 23.

Alcohol was believed to have contributed to a rollover crash in Washington County that seriously injured two men, the sheriff's office said Sunday.

The driver, a 23-year-old from Mayville, had to be flown by helicopter to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa after the crash, reported shortly before 9:30 p.m. Saturday on State Highway 33 at Walters Drive in the Town of Addison, according to a sheriff's office news release.

A 21-year-old man from Horicon was also taken to Froedtert, according to the release.

Minneapolis - There's a back door for Asian carp to sneak into Minnesota, and fisheries officials are worried that the invaders might have found it already.

Commercial fishermen recently caught dozens of Asian carp in northwestern Iowa's Great Lakes, one of that state's most popular vacation spots. Those waters connect with lakes and streams in southwestern Minnesota, so the haul came as an unwelcome surprise to Minnesota officials who've been more focused on the higher-profile fight against Asian carp infiltrating up the Mississippi River.

"We view it as a big threat. ...These fish don't recognize political boundaries," said Ryan Doorenbos, area fisheries supervisor for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Windom.