Category: Crime and safety

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Erin Thornley Parisi, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center, said the potential policy change is concerning.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.