A Madison man whose careening SUV jumped a curb and struck and killed a UW-Madison student from China, only minutes after she last communicated by social media with her mother in Beijing, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison.
A driver who was drunk and on drugs when he struck and killed a University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A 33-year-old man was sentenced in Dane County court Thursday in connection with a drunken-driving-related death of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last year.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of a series of sexual assaults pleaded guilty to five felony charges Wednesday in Dane County Court. Under the plea agreement, 21-year-old Alec Cook will also have to register as a sex offender.
A former student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has pleaded guilty to five felonies stemming from a string of alleged assaults around campus.
An expelled University of Wisconsin-Madison business student accused of sexually preying on 11 women pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges involving five of them, closing the book on a high-profile case that shook the state’s flagship campus and drew national attention in fall 2016.
Nearly half of all undergraduate Native American women on the UW-Madison campus have experienced sexual assault, according to a 2015 campus survey on the issue.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook pleaded guilty Wednesday to five felonies, including three counts of third-degree sexual assault, nearly bringing to a close a sprawling case that had been set for seven trials involving 11 alleged victims that were to have happened over the next several months.
Alec Cook, the former University of Wisconsin-Madison student facing charges including, among others, sexual assault, harassment, and stalking at least 10 women, will plead guilty and avoid trial that was scheduled to start early next week.
In the wake of the school shooting that killed 17 high school students in Parkland, FL, safety is one again a main concern at schools across the country.
A former student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is accused of sexually assaulting and stalking female students is expected to plead guilty Wednesday.
Remaining charges can still be taken into account in sentencing.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook, accused of sexual assault, stalking and other offenses mostly involving female UW students, will plead guilty on Wednesday to five criminal charges, one of his lawyers said Monday, days ahead of the first of seven anticipated trials against Cook that was to begin next week.
MADISON, Wis. – A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student facing sexual assault, stalking and strangulation charges will plead guilty to five counts ahead of a jury trial scheduled for next week, according to one of his attorneys.
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections’ supervision of Montee Ball following his conviction for domestic violence was called an abject failure by a Dane County judge who denied its request for a hearing to extend the probation of the former University of Wisconsin and NFL running back.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook is set to begin his first of seven trials on Feb. 26 in Jefferson County. Cook faces a total of 21 charges, six of which will be covered in the first trial.
A swastika and the homosexual slur “FAG” were discovered written in the snow between Botany Gardens and Chamberlin Hall early Tuesday morning.
In an effort to help staff and faculty deal with intimidating behavior on campus, University of Wisconsin announced the creation of a “Hostile and Intimidating Behavior” website to address workplace bullying.
Nearly 100 formal complaints of sexual misconduct have been made against University of Wisconsin System faculty since 2014, a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealed.
The first trial for a former UW-Madison student accused of multiple sexual assaults starts later this month in Jefferson County.
Alec Cook will be tried in Jefferson County, court officials said Monday. Cook is the expelled University of Wisconsin-Madison student whose alleged serial sexual assaults attracted such intense publicity that a pair of Dane County Circuit judges ruled he might not get a fair trial in Madison.
Burglaries at two residence halls on the UW-Madison campus on Sunday were committed by non-students who came into the halls by following student residents, police say.
Those universities that publicly proclaimed they would maintain the previous sexual assault guidelines include schools that have dealt with high-profile cases in recent years, including Stanford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On a fall night in 2016, a young woman left the library at University of Wisconsin-Madison and walked home, joined by a fellow student she’d recently met.
A former UW-Madison employee stole more than $100,000 from the Division of University Housing, UW officials said Thursday.
The UW System Regents took UW-Madison administrators to task Thursday for a lack of controls that allowed a former Division of University Housing employee to allegedly defraud the university of an estimated $115,000 in property and cash.
Representative for Sen. Tammy Baldwin also attended Tuesday meeting.
In a Saturday morning incident, Madison Police Department officers pulled a man to safety from a sixth floor balcony they believed he was prepared to jump from.
Madison Area Technical College received 39 reports of sexual harassment — 15 of stalking and 20 of sexual assault — in the past decade, according to information provided by college officials.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed moratorium on new liquor licenses would affect the parts of downtown Madison nearest the University of Wisconsin campus, including Langdon Street, five blocks of State Street and Monroe Street near Camp Randall Stadium, according to a detailed version of the proposal released Thursday.
There is currently no active investigation on the matter.
University of Wisconsin campuses have investigated nearly 100 formal complaints of sexual misconduct against employees who teach, advise or otherwise supervise students since 2014, according to an investigation by the Journal-Sentinel.
Madison officials are looking to phase out late-night food carts Downtown as part of a broader approach to reducing alcohol-related violence and other problems.
Quoted: “The children of incarcerated parents have been invisible for a long time because of stigma,” says Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, UW-Madison professor of human development and family studies. Poehlmann-Tynan has researched this population since 1996. She’s done the first ever observational study of children visiting incarcerated parents. Her work focuses on what will help children cope and thrive while a parent is incarcerated.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater have talked with colleagues on other campuses who question whether it makes sense for students to help decide sexual-assault cases. But they’ve never considered removing students from their hearing panels.
A burglar had an easy time getting into an apartment in the UW-Madison campus area early Saturday morning, going through an unlocked door to steal computers and a gaming system.
MPD believe alcohol was a contributing factor the incident.
MPD reminds students to keep doors locked, even while at home, as they return from winter break.
Notebooks seized from the apartment of former UW-Madison student Alec Cook, which prosecutors saw as evidence that he schemed to sexually assault women he met on campus, can’t be used during any of Cook’s trials, two judges wrote in a collaborative decision issued Friday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison political science department plans to warn students considering internships with Democratic Rep. Josh Zepnick that he’s been accused of sexual misconduct.
K9 Officer Kobalt and his handler, UW police Officer Nikki Zautner, are on their way home from a six-week intensive training program at Shallow Creek Kennels in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, a kennel the department has used before to select dogs, said police spokesman Marc Lovicott.
Seth Pollak, a distinguished professor of psychology and professor of anthropology, pediatrics, psychiatry and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who signed the open letter against advising students to work or study at Rochester, said Thursday that he hoped Seligman’s resignation was a step in the right direction for the campus. But the report itself was unsatisfying, he said, as Jaeger was found not to have harassed women to a “pervasive” or “severe” degree, even though multiple women testified about harassment.
He faces charges of capturing an intimate representation and disorderly conduct.
The geology hall at UW-Madison was evacuated Tuesday afternoon following a small chemical spill, with nobody hurt in the incident.
Beginning Monday Jan. 1, Madison’s new ordinance banning mopeds from being parked on public sidewalks and terraces takes effect. No respite will be found for moped drivers hoping to continue this practice as a provision in the law allowing property owners to set up designated parking areas on terraces has drawn little interest.
An agent of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives no longer works for the bureau after his arrest Tuesday for allegedly trying to take pictures of a woman inside a residence hall bathroom at UW-Madison.
A federal agent was arrested Tuesday for taking pictures in the women’s restroom of a UW-Madison residence hall, the university’s police department said.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives refused Tuesday to confirm that a male special agent was arrested for taking photos in a women’s restroom at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A 27-year-old man was arrested by UW-Madison police Thursday after he allegedly snuck into a university residence hall, entered the women’s restroom and took pictures of a female inside last week.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Police Department asks students to talk with family members about scams targeting grandparents during the holiday break.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students spending a late night studying for final exams at the College Library in White Hall now have a new option to get home: an overnight finals shuttle that stops at the library, plus six residence halls on campus.
Nearly a month after university officials discussed the implementation of additional resources that ensure students get home safe late at night, a new pilot transportation program has been initiated to get students home during finals week.
University of Wisconsin schools are getting free Narcan to combat opiate overdoses on campus.
Roman acknowledged there have been difficult relationships between police and marginalized groups across the nation for many years.
A bill scheduled to be discussed at the Capitol on Tuesday would establish a legal clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to help local crime victims.
The city has more than 850 stationary cameras at points east, west, north and south, with an especially heavy concentration of police cameras in the State Street and Downtown areas.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials say they don’t know how widespread sexual harassment on campus has been beyond the results of a 2015 survey in which a significant number of female graduate students said they were victimized by a supervisor or faculty member.
There are no reliable data on the number or rate of hate crimes in the United States, according to the investigative news nonprofit ProPublica. The organization has collected several dozen self-reports of alleged incidents of hate and bias in Wisconsin — most of them unconfirmed — since November 2016 when it began soliciting tips as part of its Documenting Hate project. The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is among more than 100 news outlets and other groups participating in the project.
Two Dane County judges, deciding together, ruled Friday that former UW-Madison student Alec Cook, who is accused of sexual assault and harassment of female students, will be tried outside of Dane County, citing intense media coverage and publicity that the case has received that would make it too difficult to find impartial jurors in Dane County.
Two armed intruders entered a home near the UW-Madison campus Saturday evening, injuring one of the residents, the Madison Police Department said.
