Police seeking connection in string of armed robberies
By Theresa La Susa | Nov. 13, 2014A knife-wielding man robbed the Paisley Hair Studio located on 1941 University Ave. Wednesday evening, according to a Madison Police Department report.
A knife-wielding man robbed the Paisley Hair Studio located on 1941 University Ave. Wednesday evening, according to a Madison Police Department report.
Gov. Scott Walker announced his intentions Thursday to fund worker training grants for a larger and more diverse workforce in Wisconsin according to a statement.
The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a case Thursday in which the Freedom from Religion Foundation accused the U.S government of providing an unfair advantage to religious organizations in the form of housing allowances.
An effort to alleviate the anxiety that accompanies living with a stranger prompted UW-Madison to team up with RoomSync this year, a Facebook application that empowers incoming freshman in the roommate assignment process while preserving the educational benefits random roommate selection offers.
UW-Madison senior Zach Wood declared Wednesday he is running for the open District 8 aldermanic position in an effort to bring a student perspective to city politics.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council approved its 2016 fiscal year budget Wednesday, which totaled $1,400,514.70.
The Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee members discussed Wednesday the progress of a project limiting single-use to-go boxes in university eateries.
The Wisconsin State Senate’s Democratic caucus elected Sen. Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, Wednesday to serve as minority leader.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved slightly adjusted budgets for Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment and Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@de Aztlán Thursday.
UW-Madison’s Traffic Operation and Safety Lab, in collaboration with news website Channel3000.com and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, recently created an interactive map that displays all fatal traffic accidents in the past 13 years, according to a university release.
Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly beat a 20-year-old Madison woman in the downtown area Saturday night, according to a report from the Madison Police Department.
The Milwaukee County Circuit Court rejected former aide to Gov. Scott Walker Kelly Rindfleisch’s appeal of her 2012 conviction on four counts of misconduct while in public office and political solicitation involving public officials and employees.
The state Joint Committee on Finance acknowledged new bipartisan action Wednesday after approving an expansion of Family Care to several counties.
As tensions in the Middle East grow ever more complex, professors are putting in the effort to foster understanding among students.
Madison residents may see police body cameras and possible structural changes to Common Council in the near future, with alders approving amendments to increase police body camera funding and aldermanic salaries during 2015 Capital and Operating Budget deliberations Tuesday.
Pursuing a diverse, collaborative future was the focus of UW-Madison’s 16th annual campus Diversity Forum, held Nov. 10 and 11.
University Health Services is currently in its last week of offering free walk-in flu shots for registered UW-Madison students and will officially end the service Friday.
The UW System announced Tuesday that beginning in Fall 2015, it will give in-state tuition to nonresidential military veterans who enroll in the System within three years of being discharged, a measure in line with recent changes to federal law.
In an effort to increase the transparency and accessibility of UW-Madison’s expenditures and revenues, Chancellor Rebecca Blank asked staff to design the Budget in Brief, a summary that breaks down the university’s $2.9 billion annual budget.
State Assembly Democrats voted to keep their minority leader for the next legislative session Tuesday while Democrats in the state Senate will elect a new minority leader Wednesday.