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.
Madison police are investing a robbery Tuesday around 10:30 p.m. on Langdon Street in downtown Madison.
The man who was behind the wheel of a car that hit three people on a South Park Street sidewalk Saturday evening, killing a UW-Madison student, is expected to face criminal charges that include homicide by intoxicated driving, authorities said Monday.
A man with a knife was reported on the UW-Madison campus Monday evening, but police believe he does not pose an ongoing threat, the UW-Madison Police Department said.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student from Beijing, who was to receive her master’s degree in economics next month, died over the weekend after she and two other pedestrians were struck by an SUV as they were walking on a sidewalk south of campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police have given the “all-clear” after an earlier report that a man with a knife was in the parking lot of the H.C. White Library.
A bystander was told by the victim’s friends on the scene that the victim was a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from China.
A man who told police he had a gun barricaded himself in a patient room at UW Hospital on Saturday evening before being taken into custody after an officer fired a non-lethal beanbag round at him.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department detained an armed individual after he barricaded himself inside a patient room at University Hospital Saturday.
A jury found suspended UW-Madison student Nathan Friar guilty of second degree sexual assault late Thursday night.
A student was robbed Monday night outside a UW-Madison residence hall, with the two suspects getting away with the man’s backpack before fleeing.
A UW student testified Tuesday of being “terrified” as acquaintance Nathan Friar strangled her, as Friar’s Dane County trial on sexual assault and strangulation began.
A strong armed robbery was reported outside a Lakeshore residence hall Monday night, according to a UW-Madison Police Department Crime Warning.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting six women and groping, stalking or sexually preying on four others could face additional charges, UW police announced Monday.
UW-Madison police are recommending additional criminal charges against a former university student accused of sexually assaulting or harassing 10 women.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police have referred more charges to prosecutors against a UW-Madison student already accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women.
MADISON — The University of Wisconsin – Madison campus is a place where you can Jewishly connect as much as you like and can even immerse yourself in a Jewish bubble.
The study done by cyber security company ID Agent shows the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a big target, but university officials are not certain the results are accurate.
A new victim and new charges have come to light in the case against former University of Wisconsin student Alec Cook.
Noted: Police circulated a photo of Anderson from the security camera to other law enforcement departments. University of Wisconsin-Madison police recognized Anderson from a previous contact when he allegedly harassed a worker at Union South the previous week and provided Madison police his name.
Police got their biggest break on Tuesday after they sent an image from one of the cameras across the Wisconsin Crime Alert Network, used by law enforcement to share tips and alerts. Anderson was identified by a member of the UW-Madison Police Department, who noticed the similarity with a photo of Anderson taken by a camera at Union South on March 20, when Anderson allegedly harassed an employee there, according to UW-Madison police spokesman Marc Lovicott.
For the second time this month, a committee at UW-Madison has voted to expel a student charged with sexual assault.
For the first time in nearly 200 years, UW Madison fraternities and sororities have an anti-sexual assault policy.
Alec Shiva—who is currently facing criminal felony counts of false imprisonment, strangulation and second-degree sexual assault—has been found responsible of a crime of violence by a disciplinary hearing that recommended his expulsion from UW-Madison.
In a January city council candidate forum, a UW-Madison student raised her hand to ask a question that seemed to catch both Zach Wood and John Terry Jr.—who are vying for a seat representing campus—off guard: “What would you do to combat sexual assault?”
Madison police have released a surveillance video image of two people allegedly involved in an unprovoked attack on a Madison man early Saturday morning near the UW-Madison campus.
Alleging an unfair process, the attorney for a recent Edina High School graduate charged with several sexual assaults at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Wednesday he will appeal his client’s expulsion from the school.
A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting six women and groping, stalking or sexually preying on four others has been expelled after a non-academic misconduct hearing committee found him responsible for violating student conduct policies related to “a crime of violence.”
UW-Madison is being investigated for four cases of mishandling reports of sexual violence—the second-most of any Big Ten school, after the University of Indiana’s five, and more than double the average of investigations for all Big Ten institutions.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison committee has upheld the recommendation to expel Alec Cook from the university for violating university student conduct policies, according to a release.
A UW-Madison misconduct committee has voted to expel a student who prosecutors allege sexually assaulted or harassed 10 women, officials said Tuesday.
Following a 2015 survey that revealed high rates of sexual assault at UW-Madison—particularly in residence halls and Greek houses—campus groups have been working to build prevention programs aimed at reducing these numbers. This programming aims to reach a significant portion of the campus population, as 90 percent of freshman choose to live in university housing and approximately 13 percent of undergraduates are members of the Greek community.
Requests for no contact orders happen fairly often—about once every two weeks, assistant dean and director of conduct and community standards Tonya Schmidt said. Reasons can be as simple as a roommate relationship gone sour, but they more commonly deal with dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
[S]ome on campus are worried that President Donald Trump’s administration may change standards for college sexual assault cases, making the reporting process more difficult for some survivors.
A UW-Madison disciplinary committee has decided to expel a student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women.
Attorneys of suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook are set to receive at least 2,800 pages of police reports and other evidence previously undisclosed by the prosecution after an emergency motion was filed Friday requesting the release of the material.
Kristen Roman thought she was headed toward a career in broadcast journalism when she studied at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the mid-1980s.
After weeks of withholding evidence from University of Wisconsin student Alec Cook’s defense team, his attorneys filed a motion to compel the court to have the prosecution release at least 2,800 pages worth of police reports and other documents, according to court records.
The number of reported sexual assaults at the University of Wisconsin-Madison rose by more than 100 in 2016, when 325 sexual assaults were reported. That’s up from 217 reports in 2015.
For several years, the Rape Crisis Center and UW-Madison have been working to break down the barriers to reporting incidents of sexual assault. Education and outreach efforts have made a goal of letting victims of sexual assault know they don’t have to suffer in silence. The belief is the reporting of sexual assaults has increased, and not necessarily the incidents themselves.
In the last year, UW-Madison saw an increase of more than 100 sexual assault reports, according to a university official. The number of reported sexual assaults on campus rose from 217 reports in 2015 to 325 in 2016. This more than doubles the increase between 2014 and 2015, when the number of reports rose by only 45.
Police arrested Chanell M Cousins, 20, Friday afternoon in connection to multiple burglaries over the past two weeks in which electronics and credit cards were stolen from unlocked offices in campus buildings.
