Locate recent crimes around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and the city of Madison from the week of Sept. 16-Sept. 22, 2013.
In 1963 a full scholarship to play Badger football was worth $1100 a year. But, even with the help of his scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus Richard “Dick” LaCroix had to work harder than he ever dreamed to complete his education at UW-Madison.
The Madison Police Department and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department are working in conjunction to put more officers on the streets in campus areas that have experienced recent upticks in dangerous crimes, according to MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain.
The most modern public library downtown Madison has ever seen celebrated its opening this past weekend.
In perhaps the cheesiest event of the season, contestants hailed from all over the country to Library Mall to engage in the only nationally sanctioned pizza-eating contest, hosted by Madison’s famous Ian’s Pizza Saturday.
A sexual aggressor fled when the college-aged woman he pushed to the ground Sunday morning near State Street kicked the suspect, according to a police report.
Although the number of underage alcohol tickets the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department issued Saturday matched the number issued at the Tennessee Tech game Sept. 7, the number of people who required medical assistance decreased significantly.
Madison police identified two suspects Friday responsible for a Wednesday armed robbery on campus as Ramar Brown and Donte Hunter, both 17, and charged them tentatively with robbery, according to a police report.
Famous Madison pizzeria Ian’s is holding its inaugural National Pizza Eating Championship Saturday, when pizza lovers will compete for a $1,000 first-place prize, according to a press release.
Madison Public Library’s downtown branch is reopening Saturday at 8 a.m. after almost two years of construction, according to its website.
The city alcohol review committee approved a liquor license Wednesday for Milwaukee-based bar Red Rocks Saloon to open a new location in the building previously occupied by Logan’s Madtown Bar, at 322 W. Johnson St.
Freakfest organizers aim not only to keep the deep-seated Halloween tradition in Madison alive, but also to collect an eclectic group of musicians, more in tune with the culture of the city, to perform on State Street this year.
Independent filmmakers are shooting scenes of “Medal of Victory,” an action comedy featuring two AWOL soldiers, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Frank Productions announced Wednesday on its Facebook page Matt & Kim and Chiddy Bang will headline Madison’s 2013 annual Halloween party, Freakfest, being held on State Street Oct. 26 this year.
Following the city’s approval Tuesday, developers will convert a historic school in the Greenbush neighborhood into apartments and construct an aesthetically similar residence adjacent to it despite a lengthy debate about commercial parking in residential areas.
Madison police officers pulled off a successful sting operation Tuesday to recover a bike stolen this past weekend after receiving a tip from the victim that the bike was for sale on Craigslist, according to a police report.
Madison police believe an armed robbery that occurred in a Bassett neighborhood residence Monday was not a random attack, according to a police report.
Police reported a string of four separate residential burglaries on Langdon Street last weekend, according to Madison police.
The city Plan Commission approved two plans for development in downtown Madison Monday, one located at 425 W. Washington Ave. and the other at 210 S. Brooks St.
City officials could choose from one of three plans to redesign Library Mall and State Street in the next six weeks, Ald. Scott Resnick, District 4, said at a Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee meeting Monday.
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