Nearly a month ago, Dane County Board Supervisor Hayley Young,, District 5, introduced a resolution asserting the county’s official condemnation of hateful rhetoric toward Muslim Americans.
Madison Police Department officers arrested John Kuznezow, 54, for invasion of privacy Monday night after there were reports of a man sitting in a tree looking through windows on Langdon Street. “Upon arrival officers discovered Kuznezow still in the tree and he appeared to be looking in a second floor window to an apartment,” MPD Lieutenant Anthony Fiore wrote in an incident report. “When officers ordered Kuznezow out of the tree they noted his pants were undone and Kuznezow had no reasonable explanation for his presence in said tree.” MPD investigated the incident and found there was a female resident inside her apartment and that she was unaware the suspect had been watching her.
Two men were driving around the North Side of Madison when they stopped and one got out of the car at the corner of Wheeler Road and School Road.
Despite an overwhelming focus on the outcome of national races, Election Day is also important for local ballot initiatives such as a referendum to increase the budget for public schools in Madison.
Two people went inside the Buffalo Wild Wings on University Avenue around 4 a.m. Friday to clean the kitchen hood fan.
Madison Fire Department officials responded to a 911 call on the near-west side Sunday around 10 a.m.
Four unidentified suspects robbed a 26-year-old man early Saturday morning on the 400 block of West Gorham Street, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
The Dane County Board of Supervisors announced one of its primary budget considerations for a jail diversion program Friday, in which low-level offenders to serve their time by rebuilding their community rather than in jail.
A 26-year-old woman was sexually assaulted after meeting a man at Wando’s on University Avenue and accompanying him back to his apartment. The suspect and victim were previously unknown to each other, according to a Madison Police Department incident report. The suspect reportedly assaulted the victim at his apartment before she was able to leave, according to the report.
The Madison Police Department dispatch received two reports of gunshots following the Chicago Cubs'x victory in the World Series Wednesday night. According to an MPD incident report, an officer on duty also heard a “possible” gunshot, but the officer heard “nothing that allowed the officer to specifically locate the source.” “Based on the calls originating from different locations in the city, and the time of the reports, it is believed that the gunshots may have been a [celebratory] response,” officer Anthony Fiore wrote in the report.
The Madison Police Department will close part of West Johnson Street Friday, starting at North Bassett Street and ending at North Carroll Street for an event featuring Vice President Joe Biden. According to a city press release, the closure will be from 7 a.m. through 3 p.m
One Madison neighborhood will soon be enriched by a mural of the famous 1960s soul artist, Otis Redding.
Madison Fire Department officials were dispatched to Engineering Hall Tuesday for reports of smoke coming out of the west end of the building.
The Madison Common Council voted unanimously Tuesday to require all gas pumps in the city be secured by a lock by the start of the new year.
Madison Police Department officers arrested four individuals Sunday for shoplifting at West Towne Mall, and the preliminary investigation shows the suspects were planning on selling the stolen merchandise to “clients” for half the price. MPD officers arrested Jermaine E. Harris, Jr., 24; Kristel D. Tate, 26; Sonja M. Griffin, 33 and a 14-year-old girl. One of the suspects, whom MPD Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain did not identify in an incident report, informed officers of the “criminal enterprise.”
The City of Madison is moving forward with plans to build a public market by attempting to finalize funding, design, construction and an operating plan with the goal of opening the market by early 2019. Common Council approved the “Public Market Business Plan and Implementation Strategy” in March of this year for constructing the market, according to a city press release.
The Madison Police Department was “very pleased” with how Freakfest went this year, according to a press release from Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain. The crowd reached 30,000 total throughout the event and there were no “serious incidents” reported.
A 14-year-old boy walking across Regent Street at Brooks Street suffered a “possible” broken leg early Friday morning, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
Students were evacuating Witte as the Madison Fire Department arrived to an alarm activation around 2 a.m.
When officials from the Madison police and fire departments arrived at the intersection of Hammersley Road and South Midvale Boulevard, they found an elderly woman sitting in her minivan that was stuck in an 18-inch pit dug for construction. The call came in from a bystander who reported to authorities there was a driver stuck in a “hole” at the intersection.
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