A body was found in Lake Mendota near Governor’s Island Saturday afternoon, according to an official within Dane County Communications Center, who remembered the incident.
Madison police officers issued a citation to a driver for failing to yield to a pedestrian at the intersection of North Frances Street and West Johnson Street early Friday morning, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
A 22-year-old student encountered two men in the University Avenue and North Bassett Street area early Sunday, resulting in one of the men hitting the student for “no apparent reason,” according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
A coalition of law enforcement agencies seized approximately $40,000 in drugs at two residences in the Madison area Thursday morning, in the culmination of “Operation Hog Day,” according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
With a special guest appearance from Batman, Terrace chair season officially began Friday morning at the Memorial Union Terrace after a preview earlier this week.
With an average wage of $8.50 per hour, a UW-Madison student would need to work 38 hours per week to pay for in-state tuition.
The Board of Regents approved UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s four-year plan Friday to increase out-of-state and international tuition starting in fall 2015.
The Student Services Finance Committee passed a revised plan Thursday, to allow General Student Services Fund groups to voluntarily returned funds that are no longer necessary.
Interim Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Patrick Sims conducted the first of four campus-wide sessions on the Diversity Framework Thursday, in an effort to update members of the UW-Madison community on the Framework’s progress.
Madison resident Joshua Van Haften appeared in U.S. District Court Thursday to face charges that he attempted to join the terrorist organization ISIL in 2014.
A federal judge denied state Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson’s request to block implementation of a constitutional amendment that would change the selection process for her position.
Two Madison bicyclists were struck by cars and transported to hospitals for injuries in two separate incidents Wednesday night, according to two incident reports filed by Madison Police Department Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain.
As part of a coalition of 73 cities and counties representing more than 43 million people, the city of Madison came out in favor of President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration which are currently stalled by a lawsuit, according to a Wednesday city press release.
Increasingly entangled issues of truancy and the lack of child mental health services existing in Madison and surrounding area schools dominated discussion at Madison’s Education Committee meeting Wednesday.
Richard Nixon is the only American president in history to resign from office. Thanks to UW-Madison historian and professor Stanley Kutler, Americans heard thousands of hours of secretly recorded phone calls related to the Watergate scandal that drove Nixon out of office.
UW-Madison’s complicated past with the JanSport apparel company led the Associated Students of Madison Student Council members to pass a resolution Wednesday, demanding Chancellor Rebecca Blank cut ties with the company.
Representatives from the Wisconsin Innocence Project presented before roughly 40 state legislators and staff members Wednesday, emphasizing the need for law enforcement to wear electronic surveillance devices, as well as a need for an increase in the compensation for Wisconsinites who are wrongly convicted of crimes.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson filed a lawsuit Wednesday in response to a constitutional amendment voted into law Tuesday, which would allow Wisconsin Supreme Court justices to choose who fills the chief justice position.
The 2nd District Court of Appeals upheld the conviction Wednesday of a man charged with taking pictures up a woman’s skirt, which comes at a time when legislators in the state Senate debate further action against “upskirting.”
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