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.
Nicholas H. Ralston, 22, of Shellsburg, Iowa, was charged with third-degree sexual assault in April 2015 when a woman told police that he had non-consensual sexual contact with her while she slept next to her boyfriend, after all three had been drinking heavily.
Following a two-day trial, a jury in the Dane County Circuit Court ruled 21-year-old Nicholas Ralston of Shellsburg, Iowa will be acquitted of third-degree sexual assault.
Upon investigation, police say they discovered the incident was in fact not a shooting, but rather a robbery, and that no one had been shot.
University authorities in Madison are investigating a reported sexual assault early Monday, according to a news release.
According to the Madison Police Department, officers responded to a robbery around 5:20 p.m. Monday. Police say it appears that the victims and suspects knew each other and the incident was targeted.
Sue Riseling, former UW-Madison chief of police and associate vice chancellor, received the 2017 Woman of the Year Philanthropy Award Friday from United Way of Dane County.
A former UW-Madison student pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexually assaulting and choking a classmate in his dorm room while high on LSD in 2016.
Surveillance video showing a January hit-and-run crash that injured a UW-Madison student who died months later was shown in a Dane County courtroom Wednesday.
A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student pleaded guilty to five charges related to sexual assault allegations.
A phone scammer is trying to scare UW-Madison students into paying for crimes they haven’t committed, with many of the students hailing from overseas.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police have received several reports of scam phone calls targeting students.
Luckily, this wasn’t during the school year. Only 16 camp counselors were staying there at the time and all got out safely.
UW-Madison Police Department and Madison Gas & Electric responded to the scene after they received a call around 3 p.m. The cause and location of the leak is currently unknown, according to UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott.
Marc Lovicott, UW Police Department spokesman, said the leak was first reported between 2:45 p.m. and 3 p.m. Monday, but has since been turned off. West Dayton and West Johnson streets surrounding the residence hall were closed to pedestrian and vehicle traffic, Lovicott said.
Erin Thornley Parisi, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center, said the potential policy change is concerning.
A judge in Madison has entered not-guilty pleas for an expelled University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of molesting and harassing 11 women on campus since 2014.
Instead, Nathan Friar will be put on probation for eight years, will register as sex offender.
In a continuation of UW-Madison’s efforts to combat sexual violence after a year in which three students were expelled for sexual misconduct, first-year and transfer students will complete a new program to learn about dating violence, sexual assault and violence prevention beginning this fall.
Noted; At Wisconsin, professor Matthew Herndon said Christensen was a student in an undergraduate class he taught and did research for him. He called Christensen a good student and said he completed a research project that studied data from the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
A Waunakee woman accused of striking a UW-Madison student as she crossed a campus-area street in January was charged Thursday with homicide by drunken driving, after injuries the student sustained in the crash led to a medical condition that caused her death in March.
The man prosecutors say kidnapped a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois last month graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013.
UW-Madison handed down their harshest-ever sanctions for sexual assaults that occurred in 2016, expelling three students from the university.
First-year and transfer students will complete a new program to learn about dating violence, sexual assault and violence prevention beginning this fall.
After working for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department for 18 years, recently appointed Iowa State University Police Chief Michael Newton said that becoming a Cyclone has been an easy transition in his first three months in Ames.
No injuries were reported after a University of Wisconsin police vehicle owned by the Dane County Sheriff’s Office was hit while stationed in traffic.
Prosecutors have charged former UW-Madison student Alec Cook with another felony, this one for allegedly cornering a woman in the laundry room of a dormitory in 2014, bringing to 11 the number of women who said that Cook sexually assaulted or harassed them.
The tragic death of a skilled windsurfer last month in a collision with a rescue boat on Lake Mendota turned a spotlight on the University of Wisconsin Lifesaving Station.
The expulsion of Alec Cook, a UW-Madison student accused of serial sexual assault and harassment, is final despite his attorneys’ attempt to appeal a disciplinary panel’s recommendation.
UW spokesperson Meredith McGlone said the non-academic misconduct hearing against Cook was complete, and the university’s final decision was still expulsion.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said the decision to expel Edina High School graduate Alec Cook, who has been charged with sexually assaulting several women, is final.
Officials with the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Tuesday that the former student accused of numerous instances of sexual assault has officially been expelled.
UW-Madison employees will be required to take an online training program about sexual harassment and violence starting in July.
Dane County officials Friday released the name of the windsurfer killed this week.
A windsurfer killed when he was struck by a University of Wisconsin rescue boat on Lake Mendota was identified by the Dane County medical examiner’s office Friday as Yu Chen, 43, of Madison.
A 20-year-old UW-Madison student was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash Friday morning, police said. Hours later, police arrested a 21-year-old Madison man on a tentative charge of failure to render aid.
A UW-Madison student suffered “significant injuries” in a hit-and-run Friday morning, according to the Madison Police Department.
Noted: Should the bills become law, they may encourage wider awareness of the crime both among law enforcement and civilians. In a statement to NBC News, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department seemed unaware of the term’s existence altogether: “’Stealthing’ is a not a term we’re familiar with, so thanks for the explanation,” police spokesman Marc Lovicott wrote. “We have not investigated a case like that before.”
A man who “piggybacked” off students to get into a University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall last month is a suspect in a sexual assault case, police said.
The man accused of hitting and killing a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last month is headed to trial.
Few of these warnings of sexual assault resulted in police investigations, and even fewer—one out of the 24 total—resulted in an arrest. That arrest ended in deferred prosecution.
Group has started fights at rallies around U.S.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police officers were out and about Tuesday with a new effort to enforce pedestrian safety laws.
After the startling results of a 2015 survey on the incidence of sexual assault on college campuses across the country, most participating institutions have increased spending to combat it, a new report by the Association of American Universities found.
UHS representatives said they will be adding new violence prevention programs for fall 2017.
The Associated Students of Madison are demanding transparency and accountability from the UW-Madison Police Department, and calling for community supervision of the department.
A new report by the Association of American Universities shows the University of Wisconsin-Madison has improved its efforts to address sexual assault on campus.
As the nation’s top party school prepares for its annual spring bash, with no campus-sanctioned alternative event this year, there are signs that heavy drinking among UW-Madison students may be declining.
UW-Madison is partnering with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office on a two-year, federally funded study to measure the effectiveness of virtual reality tools and 3-D-capture technology on crime scene investigations.
Two men held a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin student at gunpoint on North Mills Street early Friday morning.
A man whose vehicle struck and killed a UW-Madison graduate student last weekend was driving with nearly twice the legal amount of alcohol in his blood, and had a packet of methamphetamine in his jacket pocket, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.
A man accused of killing a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was walking in downtown Madison Saturday night had a blood-alcohol concentration of .146 percent, according to court documents.
Authorities say a man was driving drunk and had a packet of methamphetamine in his pocket when he struck and killed a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student from China.
