Odin, the UW-Madison Police Department’s explosive-detection and tracking K9, was put down Tuesday morning, Oct. 3, after developing masses on his spleen and liver. The 9-year-old german shepherd was born in the Czech Republic and partnered with Lt. Brent Plisch.
Potential exposure to lead at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is more widespread than previously reported. Last week UW officials said there might be lead contamination at Agricultural Hall. Now, Bascom Hall is being looked at too.
A first-responder motorcade drove University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department K-9 Odin from his home in McFarland to Middleton after he died Tuesday.
An unknown suspect attacked and attempted to abduct a University of Wisconsin student early Monday morning near Observatory Drive.
UWPD is investigating an attempted abduction that occurred early Monday morning near Ingraham Hall.
A female student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was attacked and beaten early Monday by a man who tried to abduct her near the Social Sciences building on Observatory Drive, campus police said.
A UW-Madison student was assaulted by a man armed with a weapon early Monday morning, the UW-Madison Police Department said.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is investigating an assault and attempted abduction that happened Monday at 1 a.m., according to police.
Some people may assume that police officers don’t have a sense of humor. That’s not the case for University of Wisconsin Madison Police Department.
UW-Madison officials say they are looking into possible lead contamination at two campus buildings, Ag Hall and Nancy Nicholas Hall.
UW-Madison police say there is no continued threat to area and that they’re on the scene investigating.
UW-Madison is responding to a possible lead contamination problem created by a recent construction project at Agriculture Hall
The fall semester is kicking off with Attorney General Jeff Sessions embracing free speech protections on U.S. college campuses, while at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the police chief vows her officers will protect controversial speech.
UWPD partnered with Trek Bicycles for the “Be Bright” bicycle light enforcement initiative. Instead of giving out tickets to people biking without a light at night, bicyclists received a free Trek bike light.
Friends of a beloved windsurfer who died on Lake Mendota are coming together for another memorial, as they wait for answers about why he was killed.
Madison police are investigating a shots fired incident near the UW-Arboretum Sunday.
Calling sexual assault on college campuses “not a junior crime” but a “serious, big-league crime,” a Dane County judge sentenced a former UW-Madison student to 1½ years in prison Friday for an incident in November in which he sexually assaulted and choked a friend in his dorm room while high on a hallucinogenic drug.
National data show sentences are typically more severe.
When Kristen Roman was sworn in as the new UW-Madison police chief last spring, she stepped into the role with lofty ambitions. However, her first meeting with the Associated Students of Madison last February revealed some doubts students had about her intentions.
Walking alone at night can make anyone nervous. But many students at UW-Madison don’t have a car, so they don’t have a choice but to walk. For those who are concerned about safety, they currently depend on the 140 emergency blue light stations that are scattered around campus. But UW police say they’re outdated and it’s why they’re offering a new method right at your fingertips.
An 18-year-old Madison man was charged Tuesday with secretly recording women in bathroom stalls at a UW-Madison dormitory just hours after his father bailed him out of jail on charges from a similar incident eight days earlier.
A 23-year-old student was nearly stabbed in the 700 block of State Street early Monday around 12:35 a.m.
For the second time in a week Thursday, a man was arrested after pointing a cellphone camera at women inside restrooms in a residence hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to campus police.
As the nation’s secretary of education announced plans to change the way colleges and universities handle allegations of sexual violence on campus, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Thursday defended practices on her campus.
A 21-count case that alleges sexual assault, harassment and stalking behavior toward 10 women by a former UW-Madison student will be broken up into six separate trials, a Dane County judge ruled in a written decision issued late Thursday.
Just a week after being arrested for sneaking into Sellery Residence Hall and taking pictures of residents in a women’s restroom, an 18-year-old Madison man was arrested again Thursday by UW-Madison police for a similar crime.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook will face seven separate trials in a sexual assault case involving nearly a dozen women, a county judge ruled Thursday.
A suspect in an intrusion into a woman’s bathroom at a UW campus dorm, is accused of committing a sexual assault twenty four hours after his jail release.
Dane County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Elise Schaffer tells 27 News the investigation into Yu Chen’s death in May is now being reviewed by the Dane County District Attorney’s Office.
By this fall, all employees at University of Wisconsin campuses — from custodians and residence hall staff members to professors and administrators — will have completed training on sexual violence and harassment as part of a new systemwide requirement.
A Madison man arrested after allegedly going into women’s restrooms in a UW-Madison dormitory early Wednesday was arrested again on Thursday for allegedly grabbing a woman’s buttocks.
An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after sneaking into a University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall and entering several women’s restrooms, officials said.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is trying to expand what people might think of when they imagine a typical police officer. The department held a “Women’s Conversation and Coffee” event Wednesday to talk to women interested in joining the force.
He allegedly entered several women’s restrooms, took illicit photos of Sellery Hall resident using bathroom
A 20-year-old Madison man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly punched two people repeatedly near the UW-Madison campus.
An 18-year-old man entered several women’s restrooms at a UW-Madison residence hall after trespassing in the building early Wednesday morning, UW-Madison Police said.
Two young Madison women have been duped out of a total of $5,500, police said Tuesday.
UW-Madison students are being warned by police not to fall for an old scam that involves a pseudo police officer threatening the intended victim with jail time if money is not sent immediately.
Noted: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights currently has 358 active investigations into sexual violence cases at 252 colleges, including the new case at UWM, four at UW-Madison, two at UW-Whitewater, two at Medical College of Wisconsin, and one at St. Norbert College.
Family and friends of a windsurfer who died in May when a University of Wisconsin boat collided with him still have many questions about the incident.
UW-Madison does not require supervisors or human resources officials to keep records of anonymous sexual harassment complaints that are brought forward by students or employees, administrators say.
A Dane County judge has cleared the way for separate trials, for a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student. Prosecutors had requested joining two separate cases against 22-year-old Alec Cook, who faces more than 20 counts, including sexual assault, false imprisonment and disorderly conduct.
A 21-year-old Chicago man shot himself in the groin early Wednesday morning, while on a commuter bus stopping on the UW-Madison campus en route from Minneapolis to Chicago.
The parents of Wisconsin student who died while studying abroad in Rome are suing his university in Italy for failing to notify him about previous deaths of students at the school.
The parents of the 19-year-old Spring Green student who died in Rome last year filed a federal civil lawsuit against the university where their son was about to take classes there for failing to warn him about recent deaths of young adults that occurred near the campus.
The parents of the University of Wisconsin-Madison student who died during his study-abroad trip in Rome last year have filed a lawsuit against the university where he was planning on taking classes.
Starting in July, all UW-Madison employees will be required to take an online sexual violence prevention education course as part of the university’s efforts to crack down on sexual assault and harassment on campus.
Noted: It’s not as if we do anything meaningful with the records we manage to collect despite the protections provided to private prisons. In 2015, researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Business secured inmate disciplinary report records from a private prison in Mississippi. Using the reports as proxy for rehabilitation (reformed prisoners, presumably, wouldn’t misbehave while incarcerated) revealed that private prisons issue more disciplinary “tickets” — twice as many, in fact — than their public counterparts.
A Madison man who police said slipped into a UW-Madison dormitory in April and groped two female students as they slept was charged Wednesday with two counts of second-degree sexual assault.
Dane County’s district attorney defends a jury’s guilty verdict in a sexual assault case involving two UW-Madison students, after a judge’s questioning of the jury’s decision leads to the possibility of an appeal.
A man who claimed to have information on the 2008 homicide of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student died over the weekend.
After a cross-country manhunt, a Northwestern University professor and University of Oxford employee are in custody for the brutal stabbing death of a 26-year-old hair stylist in Chicago. The case has involved peculiar twists, including a cash donation by one of the two suspects in the victim’s name at a Wisconsin library and a videotaped confession sent to friends. The two men surrendered peacefully in California after eight days as fugitives.
A former college student in Wisconsin has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a dorm, despite telling friends in a group text message that he did.
Before his expulsion from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Alec Cook used his student status in a “scheme” to get access to and “criminally and violently exploit” female students, prosecutors argued in a brief filed Tuesday in Dane County Circuit Court.
An arrest warrant has been issued for a Northwestern associate professor and a University of Oxford employee in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man in a Near North Side apartment. He is a UW alum.
Noted: All of the estimated 75 students in the program will also be enrolled in a pre-college enrichment program operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the university, the Milwaukee Police Department and the group Community Advocates will be partners in the program.
State prosecutors on Tuesday asked a Dane County judge to reject a proposal for 11 trials for former UW-Madison student Alec Cook — one for each woman he is accused of sexually assaulting or harassing.
One person was taken to the hospital Monday afternoon after a chemical spill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, officials said.
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison student Alec Cook, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault, is seeking to split up the charges against him into multiple trials, according to a motion filed in Dane County court last month.
A UW-Madison student is pushing drunk driving prevention at campus bars to help cope with the loss of his girlfriend to a suspected drunk driver. Senior Nick Debner tells 27 News he scans bar parking lots, and if he sees a drinking patron about to leave in a car, he often intervenes.
