With next week’s municipal election quickly approaching, Board of Education candidates met with UW-Madison students Tuesday to discuss their plans for the Madison Metropolitan School District. Kate Toews and Ali Muldrow are vying to fill Seat 6.
Whether taxpayers will foot the bill for legal fees racked up in a case against Madison Police Department Police Chief Mike Koval is set to be decided by local officials in an upcoming meeting, after the city finance committee voted in favor of doing so Monday. Between Sept. 6, 2016 through March 15, 2017 Koval spent $21,953 to hire a defense lawyer, after three separate complaints from community members were filed against him.
The Madison Police Department is investigating a homicide after a man was found dead in his downtown apartment. The victim, a man in his 40s, was found by his female roommate in their 27 N.
A UW-Madison graduate working as a photojournalist for The Guardian was one of hundreds of people arrested Sunday at an opposition rally in Moscow. Alec Luhn, a Stoughton, Wis.
A man was arrested over the weekend after breaking into a downtown hospital and battering a nurse, Madison Police Department said Monday. Michael R.
In a January city council candidate forum, a UW-Madison student raised her hand to ask a question that seemed to catch both Zach Wood and John Terry Jr.—who are vying for a seat representing campus—off guard: “What would you do to combat sexual assault?”
Madison Police Department Chief Mike Koval was reprimanded but will not face any disciplinary actions after calling the grandmother of Tony Robinson—a teen fatally shot by an officer in 2015—a “raging lunatic,” according to a decision reached Tuesday by the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners. The decision came after Sharon Irwin, Robinson’s grandmother, and Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores, a friend of Irwin’s, asked PFC to suspend Koval.
Madison police released surveillance footage Wednesday of several men thought to be stealing items from cars parked in a downtown parking garage. The theft incidents, which occurred on the 800 block of East Washington Avenue, were reported Tuesday morning. Police have not yet said how many vehicles were broken into or what was taken from them. Anyone with information can contact Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014.
A 55-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint downtown early Sunday morning, according to Madison Police Department.
Attorneys of suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook are set to receive at least 2,800 pages of police reports and other evidence previously undisclosed by the prosecution, after an emergency motion was filed Friday requesting release of the material. Cook’s attorneys, Christopher Van Wagner and Jessa Nicholson, requested in the motion that the state turn over the following:any physical evidence that the state intends to use at trial, a list of witnesses that would be called at trial, a written summary of videotaped or recorded written and oral statements made by Cook and the witnesses, including emails, text messages or any other form of electronic messages, as well as a summary of any expert’s testimony. “This allows us, in this and every other case, to see what they have and then do our own follow-up investigation,” Van Wagner told The Daily Cardinal in an email.
A Dane County Jail inmate died last July after overdosing on heroin. Now, court documents show he received the drugs from another inmate.
One of two men connected with a shooting last month that injured four victims at a gas station on Madison’s East side was charged Wednesday on $150,000 bail. Claude D.
After over six hours of debate and public comment, Madison’s city council voted Tuesday to allow a beer garden in Olbrich Park.
At least 600 people rallied at the state Capitol Wednesday to observe International Women’s Day, participating in a day of strikes, protests, lobbying and walkouts that event organizers titled “A Day Without a Woman."
Passengers on Madison buses—including those serving the downtown and campus area—will be permitted to carry concealed weapons, following a state Supreme Court ruling Tuesday. In a 5-2 conclusion, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed an appeals court decision to maintain a Madison Metro Transit policy that had stricter gun restrictions in place than those in current state law. Justice Daniel Kelly wrote the opinion for the majority.
Grief and anger were palpable as hundreds of friends, family and community members held a demonstration Monday night to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the death of Tony Robinson, a teenager shot and killed in 2015 by Madison Police Department Officer Matt Kenny. Family and friends still seeking justice Demonstrators chanted, “The whole damn system is guilty as hell, indict, convict, send those killer cops to jail,” and “No justice, no peace, no racist police,” as they marched from Madison East High School to the Social Justice Center—a block from where Robinson was shot.
Toward the end of every spring semester, Mifflin Street residents open their doors to hundreds of UW-Madison students and Madison residents for a Saturday of celebration.
All six schools tested by Madison’s school district contain lead levels higher than the national standard for contamination in their drinking water. Water fountains at East High School, Sherman and Blackhawk Middle Schools and Gompers, Lowell and Lapham Elementary Schools, all on the city’s east side, contained lead amounts higher than 15 parts per billion, the Madison Metropolitan School District said Thursday.
A newly available program that allows the public to access ballots cast in the last presidential race is making Dane County a pioneer in election transparency. The county clerk’s office is now disclosing every ballot cast from the November election to the public on its website, through the computer program Election Audit Central. “This was impossible a couple of years ago,” said Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell.
A homeless man was arrested Wednesday in connection with three different downtown burglaries, according to the Madison Police Department. Grahm T.
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