A Wisconsin firm recently paid $9.35 million for Flats 55, a four-year-old apartment complex in Stewartville. It was sold by Matt Onofrio, a real estate investor who has pleaded guilty to bank fraud.

The seven-time Oscar-winning cartoon series “Tom and Jerry” has been deemed too controversial for television. TV execs watching examples of the cartoon laughed until they cried and then said, “If we ...