Category: Crime and safety

It’s a $4.8-million project that will make UW-Madison police headquarters look a lot different.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department will break ground on an expansion project for its downtown headquarters soon.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department has been struggling to find office space on campus for years.

A UW-Madison fraternity member tackled and held down a burglary suspect late Monday night.

A college student tackled a teenage burglar Monday night as he caught him in the act, police said.

A UW-Madison student arriving home at his fraternity Monday night stopped a burglary in progress by tackling and holding one of the three suspects, the 16-year-old taken into custody and tentatively charged with a variety of crimes.

Madison Police arrested a teenager after they say he and two others broke into a fraternity house on Langdon St. Monday night.

Madison Police arrested a 16-year-old Madison resident after he and two other suspects were stopped mid-robbery at the University of Wisconsin Kappa Sigma fraternity house on 124 Langdon St.

Susan Riseling is pinning up her badge, retiring after serving a quarter-century as the chief of police at UW-Madison.

On July 26, 2016, Senior Producer Steve Walters conducted an exit interview with UW-Madison Police Chief Riseling regarding her years of service and her retirement.

The family of a missing UW-Madison student said their daughter has been found. Raquel Gonzalez, 19, was found Saturday evening. She hadn’t been seen by anyone since Wednesday.

Study-abroad programs are designed to expose students to ideas and cultures different from their own. They are a soft-diplomacy tool, a chance for young people to share positive exchanges with students in parts of the world that aren’t always fond of the United States, places with different philosophies for governing and doing business. Studying abroad is not supposed to be easy or comfortable. But it’s also not supposed to be fatal.

Noted: The incidents have police departments across the country warning gamers not to bury their heads in their phones. “You need to be aware of your surroundings and be careful,” said Marc Lovicott, communications director for campus police at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: “Thankfully we haven’t seen any serious accidents here, but we have heard some complaints,” UW-Madison Police Spokesman Marc Lovicott says.

Noted: On the UW-Madison campus, players have had at least three close calls this past weekend.”We want people to have a fun time but just don’t walk in the middle of the street. We have had people biking in the street and using it who are weaving in and out of traffic; it’s just not safe. We just don’t want someone to get seriously hurt or even killed,” UW-Madison Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott said.

Noted: Marc Lovicott, from the UW-Madison Police Department, says thankfully, PokemonGo hasn’t been blamed for any recent incidents in Madison.

“Thankfully we haven’t seen any serious accidents here, but we have heard some complaints,” UW-Madison Police Spokesman Marc Lovicott says.

On the UW-Madison campus, players have had at least three close calls this past weekend.

VIDEO: UWPD Chief Sue Riseling is retiring. Neil Heinen talks to her about career.

The death of a UW-Madison student who was studying abroad in Italy has been especially hard to take in the communities the young man called home.

ROME — Pope Francis met on Wednesday with the parents of an American college student whose body was found in the Tiber River this week, a victim of what the police are calling robbery and murder.

Beau Solomon, the American student whose body was recovered from a river in Rome days ago, is one of several American students who died while studying abroad in Italy in recent years. But research shows that students are actually safer while on international exchanges than on American college campuses.

UW-Madison has been working to ensure the safety of the thousands of students who study abroad each year, campus officials said following the death of sophomore Beau Solomon in Rome last week.

Study abroad programs such as the one UW-Madison student Beau Solomon had arrived in Rome to attend before he was killed over the weekend don’t disclose to parents or prospective students how often their participants are injured or die, according to an advocate for greater oversight of the programs.

Mike Honer was about to drive to work at Culver’s here Monday when his parents stopped him to tell him that a body found in a Rome river was presumed to be his good friend and former River Valley High School classmate Beau Solomon.

The suspected murder of UW-Madison study abroad student Beau Solomon in Rome follows the suspicious death of a University of Iowa student a year ago.

For many students studying abroad is the experience of a lifetime. But being out of the states in a new country with different cultures and language barriers can also present its challenges. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has around 24 students currently studying abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, this summer. UW-Madison started sending students to JCU in 2012.

He was the luckiest kid in the world.That’s how the family of Beau Solomon felt just over a decade ago, when the young boy from Spring Green got to meet legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre through the Make-A-Wish program.

About 200 people gathered at the football stadium at River Valley High School in Spring Green for a candlelight vigil to remember Beau Solomon.

The body of an American teenager was found in Rome on Monday, after a four-day search for the student who went missing hours after arriving in Italy to attend a summer school program.

The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) announces it has hired Susan Riseling as its new executive director. She will assume the position effective, Aug. 8.