More than 80 people were arrested Saturday at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party in Madison, where partygoers flipped over a car and a deck failed, according to the Madison Police Department.
As pro-Palestinian encampments pop up at colleges across the country, student groups have scheduled Monday morning rallies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
About 10,000 students clogged an artery in the heart of Downtown on Saturday, marking 55 years of the Mifflin Street Block Party with the legally ambiguous nonsense for which the event has become infamous.
The statement comes after numerous colleges across the country have been showing support for Palestine during the current Israel/Hamas conflict. A pro-Palestine protest is planned for this upcoming Monday on UW-Madison campus.
In an email to all students, faculty and staff Friday, UW-Madison’s dean of students and the interim UW-Madison police chief warned not following campus protest policies “can and will have consequences, both within our code of student conduct and more broadly under Wisconsin law.”
Turnout at 2024 event largest since pandemic.
The Madison Police Department (MPD) is investigating a death after the Madison Fire Department’s lake rescue team responded to reports of a person yelling for help in the water of Lake Mendota around 4:30 a.m. Friday.
Dean of Students Christina Olstad sent an email to students Friday morning reminding them of their protesting rights and the university’s protest policy. The email also said the university will enforce the administrative code prohibiting camps on university grounds.
For each of the past 55 years, the 400 and 500 blocks of West Mifflin Street have undergone a one-day transformation. The usually quiet stretch of vintage student rentals becomes a seething mass of humanity, a jungle that officials have tried to weed and tame, often with little success. The will of a 19-year-old business major to get plastered continues to triumph over the best-laid plans of mayors and council members.
The event is one the Madison Police Department has said in the past it’s “very serious” about shutting down for good.
The U-W Madison Police Department is investigating a battery that happened Wednesday night outside of Grainger Hall.
Students notified of incident, encouraged to take safety precautions.
Police share enforcement plans as residents prepare for unsanctioned block party.
UWPD is actively investigating the incident.
Investigators reached the conclusion that student behavior was a root cause of the collapse.
The main cause of a 2023 Labor Day pier collapse on the UW-Madison campus was there being too many people on the dock whose behavior was not conducive to the structure, a report released on Thursday revealed.
Some drivers pulled over by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department for minor equipment violations are getting certificates for repairs instead of citations.
Got a busted taillight? Maybe a burned-out turn signal? The UW-Madison Police want to help. The department has partnered with Lights On!, a Michigan-based organization that pairs up with police and auto shops, to replace tickets for mechanical violations such as broken taillights or turn signals with vouchers to get them fixed.
Co-authored by ssociate professor of Management and Human Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
To help drivers avoid mechanical violation citations, the UW-Madison Police Department announced Monday a voucher program for a free repair. It is part of a larger partnership with “Lights On!,” and is the first such partnership in Wisconsin.
Spokesperson Cynthia Schuster said firefighters responded to an apartment near the 500 block of Eagle Heights Drive to investigate a carbon monoxide alarm sounding around 9:37 a.m. Firefighters entered the building and found elevated levels on the first and second floor and began ventilating the building with a fan. Residents were evacuated.
Fire crews were dispatched to the Eagle Heights Apartments complex at 9:37 a.m. Tuesday to investigate a carbon monoxide alarm that was sounding, Madison Fire Department spokesperson Cynthia Schuster said in a statement.
A former construction worker at Camp Randall Stadium settled for $22 million from a general contractor after burning over 70% of his body in an explosion in 2022, according to the man’s attorney.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD) launched a one-button alert system. The new tool aims to accelerate critical emergency notifications during a deadly, active threat.
“It doesn’t replace our WiscAlerts whatsoever,” Executive Director of Communications for UW-Madison Police, Marc Lovicott, said. “This is like the panic button.”
“When we first explored a one-button solution, the technology was brand new,” said UWPD Interim Chief of Police Brent Plisch.”Now that it has proven success elsewhere we’re comfortable adding it to our wide range of tools to keep the UW-Madison campus safe.”
Beginning fall of 2024, UWPD will be able to press a physical “panic button” that would trigger a WiscAlert emergency notification and alert all UW students and staff. The button will be solely used in the event of a potential deadly, active threat.
UW-Madison police are launching a new one-button alert for “active, deadly threats” they will test at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Starting this fall, the department will have the ability to activate a one-press “panic button.” The button is only to be used in the event of a deadly, active threat and will send out a WiscAlert emergency notification to all staff and students.
One-touch “panic button” technology for 911 dispatchers part of ongoing efforts to mitigate active threat situations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison waived more than $4,000 in security and event fees for an event hosted by Wisconsin Young Americans for Freedom on March 11 after a lawsuit threat from conservative law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Department is investigating property damage and vandalism over the weekend at Golda Meir Library, named for an Israeli prime minister and that has been at the center of student protests.
The years that passed and the good things that Juan A. Salgado-Arroyo did during them could not outweigh the rape that he and a still-unidentified man committed in 2011 near the UW-Madison campus, a judge said Friday before sentencing him to 20 years in prison.
The incident was not reported to UWPD, per an email crime warning alert sent to students.
Students notified via email, sexual assault was not reported to UWPD.
Incident involving group of six males reported near intersection of Linden and Observatory.
University police are actively investigating the case.
During the assault, the victims say the other members of the group allegedly stood by and watched. The victims were able to escape.
Police said that, when the students stopped to speak with the men, two of the men punched them in the face and head. The other members of the group reportedly stood by and watched.
According to a news release, the two students walked by a group of six men at about 8:30 p.m. Three of them followed the students. The students stopped to interact with the men, and two of them “punched the victims in the face and head.”
Two UW-Madison students were attacked while walking together on campus Sunday night, campus police reported.
42-year-old Aidison Yang was convicted for three counts of first degree sexual assault in 2005 with help from an FBI database.
Fake government officials have been scamming international students for money and personal information.
UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas told 27 News, Reategui had worked with teams in the past. “Once UW Athletics learned of the allegation, it suspended its relationship with him,” Lucas wrote. “UW Athletics has no information to suggest the allegation relates in any way to our student-athletes.”
A Minnesota man was convicted Thursday of the 2005 knifepoint rape of a UW-Madison student along an East Side bike path, after a jury found him guilty of three crimes related to the incident.
In a statement Wednesday, a UWPD spokesperson told News 3 Now that the group had protested peacefully during the bulk of the career fair, however in the afternoon multiple protesters tried to disrupt the event.
“You are being violent. We were peacefully protesting, and you were being violent,” the protester said in a subsequent video.
In a statement to News 3 Now, UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas said the university responded to multiple attempted disruptions at the career fair. Lucas said one person was cited at around 4:30 p.m. after they tried to disrupt the event and stop students from meeting with recruiters. That person was later released.
UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman has resigned amid a university investigation into alleged workplace misconduct.
An 80 line metro bus collided with a car on Observatory Drive around 1:50 p.m. Monday.
Appointment follows resignation of Kristen Roman.
Brent Plisch, who has been with UWPD since 2005, was appointed as interim chief. He previously served as a U.S. Army captain and was a platoon leader, assistant operations officer and battalion staff officer. He was stationed at Fort Carson, Colo. and completed a tour in Iraq.
UW-Madison Spokesperson Kelly Tyrrell told 27 News Roman resigned amid an investigation into alleged violations of university employment policy and work rules.
Court records state an intoxicated Joehnk was at Monday’s Bar in downtown Madison Halloween 2022 when he started touching a woman inappropriately against her will. Records also say he sexually touched one of her friends.
State Sen. Kelda Roys, D-Madison, and state Rep. Deb Andraca, D-Whitefish Bay, were approached by a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison professors and asked to strengthen campus firearm laws.
Jack O’Meara represents the Public Representation Organization of the Faculty Senate, or PROFS, a nonprofit advocacy organization of UW-Madison faculty. He said there was increased concern after the Feb. 13, 2023, mass shooting at Michigan State University. In that incident, three students were killed and five others were injured when a gunman entered a building on the East Lansing campus.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating a sexual assault which occurred early on Sunday morning.
Students notified via email, investigation ongoing.
Madison police said Thursday morning that they are investigating after several eggs were launched at UW Hillel Foundation, 611 Langdon St., on Tuesday night.
UW leaders offer support to students, condemn antisemitism.
Eggs hurled at the UW Hillel Foundation on Tuesday night are expected to cost thousands of dollars to clean up, staff told the Madison Police Department.
