On November 28, the man, 20, and two other men disrupted a student organization meeting in the Humanities building, making racist and profane comments and threatening people in multiple rooms, according to UW-Madison Police spokesperson Marc Lovicott. The man was originally arrested Dec. 1.
Madison police said they found a 21-year-old man injured at an Anytime Fitness near the UW-Madison campus on Monday. The man is potentially tied to two sexual assaults that police said occurred at that same gym.
UW-Madison Police are warning the public about a scam targeting college students across the country.
Prosecutors dropped and amended charges against one of the four people arrested and charged during pro-Palestine protests on UW-Madison’s campus in May.
The fire was reported at 6:23 p.m. at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station at 8502 Mineral Point Road. That facility is used by UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
No one was injured Friday evening in a fire that destroyed a shed and a barn at UW-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station on Madison’s West side.
A hands-on encounter with Wisconsin’s newest and most troublesome open-records law.
“I felt like I had a real deficit in talking about firearms with patients,” said Dr. James Bigham, a primary care doctor and professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
Bigham runs a class for medical students and staff about the basics of firearms at Max Creek Gun Range, alongside shop and gun owner Steve D’Orazio.
UW-Madison Police Department arrested a man on drug and weapons charges early Sunday morning after officers reported smelling marijuana coming from a vehicle during a traffic stop.
UW-Madison Police said that around 1:45 a.m., officers stopped a car on Langdon Street after noticing the plates were registered to a different car. The driver was a 19-year-old from Madison named Jaylen M. Smith. When officers approached, they said they could “clearly smell marijuana coming from inside.”
“This is a case where, if you invalidate this statute on the basis of originalism, you go back in time and say, essentially, at the time of the original ratification of the Constitution, domestic violence was tolerated — and therefore, based on originalism, we need to invalidate the statute,” John P. Gross, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School who’s also the director of the Public Defender Project, told BI. “And that is, of course, an absurd, horrible result.”
The citations come after an initial round of UWPD citations which were issued to protesters immediately after officers from the Madison Police Department and UWPD raided the encampment on May 1.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department issued citations to 19 people Thursday related to the pro-Palestinian encampment on Library Mall at the end of the spring semester.
The notification said the burglaries, which occurred between noon and 8 p.m., targeted offices in the School of Pharmacy, Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research and University Hospital. UW property, including a laptop and medical-style clothing, was stolen during the burglaries. UWPD also said credit cards were stolen from staff areas.
Madison police continue to seek a suspect in a weekend shooting at an unauthorized rooftop apartment party in the city’s downtown that left 12 people hurt.
The shooting took place at a rooftop party with more than 25 people attending at the high-rise Lux Apartment building near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and came as two other weekend shootings occurred in the city. At a Monday press conference, Madison officials said they’re still determining a motive and have yet to arrest anyone.
None of those who were injured or involved in the shooting are known to be affiliated with UW-Madison, according to UWPD. UW-Madison is not currently in session. The university is offering sympathy and concern for those injured, along with resources and support to UW students who may have been impacted.
MPD shut down Johnson Street and surrounding areas to investigate the incident early Sunday. The University of Wisconsin released a statement offering resources for those involved or affected by the incident, though no one injured is known to be affiliated with UW.
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said the victims sustained non-life-threatening injuries at a shooting in downtown Madison near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus early Sunday morning.
Using archival audio and media coverage (including Capital Times articles) and present-day interviews, “You Killed Chris” pieces together the details of the case and the historical context for the crime.
In response to the shooting, the University of Wisconsin-Madison said it will offer “sympathy and concern for those injured, along with resources and support to UW students who may have been impacted.”
At least 10 people were injured in a shooting early Sunday morning at a Madison apartment building near the University of Wisconsin campus.
At least 10 people were injured during a shooting early Sunday morning at a rooftop party at a high-rise apartment building in downtown Madison, near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The shooting happened near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but university officials said no students were known to be among those injured or involved.
Written by Mariel Barnes, an assistant professor with the La Follette School of Public Affairs. Her research examines everyday forms of violence against women, gender, and the politics of the welfare state.
A Madison man is facing a felony charge after police say he interfered with the May 1 raid of an unsanctioned pro-Palestinian encampment on the UW-Madison campus.
The Madison Police Department Special Events Team was assisting the UW-Madison Police Department in breaking up a tent encampment at Library Mall. MPD spokesperson Stephanie Fryer said, while on campus, a man pulled an officer to the ground and attempted to disarm her of her wooden baton.
The Madison Police Department arrested a pro-Palestine demonstrator Friday evening on charges for battery or threat to an officer and disarming a peace officer.
The individual, a UW alum, was arrested for allegedly disarming and causing battery or threat to law enforcement. Disarming and causing harm to or threatening a police officer are both Class H felonies in Wisconsin — the individual could face up to 12 years in prison and maximum fines of $20,000.
Judge determines defendants plausibly committed felonies.
At about 7:20 p.m. Saturday, UW officers responded to Library Mall for a report of a battery and a person told them that a man later identified as a 48-year-old Madison man had assaulted a speaker during a peaceful demonstration, UW police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said in a statement.
UW-Police Department arrested a 48-year-old Madison man after he allegedly assaulted a speaker during a peaceful demonstration at 7:20 p.m. Saturday evening.
A Madison man was arrested Friday night after allegedly threatening to kill a student earlier in the week, UW-Madison police said Saturday.
At about 7:30 p.m. Friday, UWPD contacted a 38-year-old man for an alleged death threat he made on May 7. A student had claimed a man came up to him and threatened to kill him if he did not put his phone away.
UWPD says any disruption of campus events, which includes graduation, is against state law and will not be tolerated. Any students who do will face a suspension and have their degree put on hold.
Madison police officers arrested a 20-year-old man who they said tried to fight people near the Library Mall encampment Wednesday night.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is warning of disciplinary action and even arrest for people who disrupt its commencement ceremony this weekend.
All incidents have occurred during encampment demonstration.
The UW-Madison Police Department said Wednesday that it is investigating three incidents that reportedly occurred on Library Mall over the past week.
The first was reported Wednesday, May 8, but happened on May 1. A student displaying a pro-Israel sign said a man approached her and said “Jews shouldn’t be on campus,” according to UWPD.
Madison police on Tuesday released more than 40 surveillance video images of people who may have been involved in flipping over a car at this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party.
MPD identifies 31 suspects, asks those involved to come forward.
The messages, located on an electrical transformer box on North Henry Street, depicted a woman in hijab with the message “Islam is satanic/martyrs burn/in hell.”
Several dozen faculty and staff members from the University of Wisconsin-Madison staged a walkout Monday in opposition to the university administration’s response to a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professors confronted Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin on Monday over a decision last week to send in police and break up a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus.
UW President Jay Rothman says the protest encampments at Madison and Milwaukee “will ultimately be gone” but declined to give a specific timeline or course of action as talks are expected to continue this week between protesters and UW-Madison officials.
Four Madison men, one of them a UW-Madison student, arrested this week during a clash between police and protesters on Library Mall, were charged Friday with offenses ranging from disorderly conduct to battery of a police officer, according to criminal complaints.
Four people who were arrested and booked into the Dane County Jail after police broke up an encampment on the UW-Madison campus Wednesday morning were formally charged on Friday, online court records show.
“We think it’s important to protect free speech and the right to freedom of assembly,” stated Dane County Supervisor Hedi Wegleithner, who represents District 2.
Wednesday marked day three of a demonstration on UW-Milwaukee’s campus. Despite tension at UW-Madison, there are no signs of the Milwaukee encampment shutting down.
Campus and state police officers broke up University of Wisconsin-Madison students’ anti-war encampment protest Wednesday morning — physically removing tents and arresting several protesters in the process.
Police swarmed a University of Wisconsin-Madison encampment Wednesday morning and arrested 34 people, two days after pro-Palestinian protesters took over Library Mall.
The Department of African American Studies confirmed her death in a statement Tuesday. “Nina was kind, quiet and generous,” the statement read. “She was a devoted mother and beloved daughter and sister. Nina had a welcoming spirit and smile.”
Students reported to UWPD that an individual performed a Nazi salute Monday. There is no indication this person is affiliated with the university or Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
On Saturday several blocks of Mifflin Street were closed off and crowded with college students as they made their way to the annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
More than 80 people were arrested Saturday at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party in Madison, where partygoers flipped over a car and a deck failed, according to the Madison Police Department.
As pro-Palestinian encampments pop up at colleges across the country, student groups have scheduled Monday morning rallies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
About 10,000 students clogged an artery in the heart of Downtown on Saturday, marking 55 years of the Mifflin Street Block Party with the legally ambiguous nonsense for which the event has become infamous.
The statement comes after numerous colleges across the country have been showing support for Palestine during the current Israel/Hamas conflict. A pro-Palestine protest is planned for this upcoming Monday on UW-Madison campus.
In an email to all students, faculty and staff Friday, UW-Madison’s dean of students and the interim UW-Madison police chief warned not following campus protest policies “can and will have consequences, both within our code of student conduct and more broadly under Wisconsin law.”
Turnout at 2024 event largest since pandemic.
