MADISON, Wis. — Madison police are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the person responsible for the death of a college student who vanished last month.
Dane County Coroner John Stanley confirmed late Tuesday night that the body found in a wooded area south of Madison on Monday was that of 22-year-old Kelly Nolan. He is still working to determine the cause of death, but police said she was killed.
MADISON, WIS. – A decomposed body found in a densely wooded area Monday morning was that of a college student who vanished two weeks earlier, the Dane County coroner confirmed late Tuesday.
The body was positively identified as University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student Kelly Nolan, 22, coroner John Stanley said in a prepared statement.
FITCHBURG, Wis. — Dane County Coroner John Stanley positively identified the body found in a rural Wisconsin area Monday as that of missing college student Kelly Nolan Tuesday night.
Investigators on Tuesday took the body from the heavily wooded area were it was discovered to a morgue for an autopsy. A team of experts worked all day Tuesday to gather evidence at the scene 10 miles south of Madison on Schneider Drive.
Madison firefighters started a weeklong training that is a bit different from what they usually do. UW’s Ogg Hall, the former home of students, still provided a learning atmosphere.
Firefighters say it has been about 3 years since the last high rise fire in Madison, which is why they need to train more on it.
Since Ogg Hall is being torn down in August the university offered it to the fire department for training.
They had previously allowed the department to use the stairwells as practice during holidays, but never a vacant building.
A UW dorm set for demolition will serve as a training ground for local first responders.
Monday, UW police and Madison fire officials will begin using the 13-story Ogg Hall as an emergency-training facility.
An estimated 40-thousand students have lived in the Dayton Street residence hall since it opened in 1965.
Authorities say the body they found Monday may be that of a college student who vanished last month after a night of drinking. 22-year-old Kelly Nolan was a student at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
A body was found Monday morning in a Fitchburg field about 10 miles south of where Nolan vanished. Dane Count Coroner John Stanley says the body is a young female and it may be Nolan’s but they haven’t made positive ID yet.
My brother visited Madison recently, and he spent a morning photographing a Madison architectural landmark.
The Capitol? No.
A Frank Lloyd Wright design? Definitely not.
No, he was documenting the wonders of the George L. Mosse Humanities Building, the most maligned structure on campus. UW-Madison officials can hardly wait to knock it down; the chancellor himself has joked about auctioning off the privilege of pushing the demolition plunger.
The Republican-run Assembly will take up a budget Tuesday that does not raise taxes while providing fewer funds for schools and the University of Wisconsin System than Democrats had sought.
A $10,000 reward is now available to anyone who can help police find Kelly Nolan.
Saturday, the 22-year-old’s family announced there are two separate awards.
One, a $5,000 reward, was donated by a close family friend who wishes to remain anonymous.
Employees of a bar on Madison’s West Gilman Street told 27 News they’ve been asked by police detectives whether they saw missing UW-Whitewater student Kelly Nolan at bar time before her disappearance two weeks ago.
Bartender Chris Kornell of Lava Lounge at 461 W. Gilman St., told 27 News he did not see Nolan as he served, and then dispersed a crowd in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 23.
But sources close to the search for the college student confirmed for 27 News police have interviewed a man who spent time with Nolan at Lava Lounge and then walked with her outside the bar.
A former UW student who faked her own abduction has finally paid off her debt to the city of Madison.
A new report suggests changed are needed in how the UW System is managed.
The study conducted by the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, a conservative think tank, examined the UW System over the past 35 years. Coordinator Tom Fletemeyer says an outdated administration is preventing the System from reaching its full potential, largely because the UW has become too decentralized in its management. As a result, issues are difficult to address because too many people are involved.
When the University of Pennsylvania tried to recruit UW-Madison professor Laura Kiessling last year, the pitch was simple.
“They pretty much asked us to tell them what we wanted — and they would give us that,” Kiessling said, of the joint offer made to Kiessling and husband Ronald Raines, a fellow UW-Madison biochemist.
It is also not lost on us that the announcement of a regional transportation authority comes with the support of the leaders of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Madison, Incorporated, and the University of Wisconsin Madison. Such support only reinforces the regional breadth of the effort. But without the Mayor and County Executive leading the effort together no plan was going anywhere and we were in danger of being left with nothing. So credit to them for coming together. Our transportation future just got a lot brighter.
The search continues today for Kelly K. Nolan, 22, the missing woman who disappeared early Saturday morning after partying with friends downtown.
If there’s no progress in the investigation today, all indications are that Madison police will put out a national law enforcement bulletin this afternoon, trying to get some clues as to the young woman’s whereabouts.
Nolan’s family started a search for her Thursday, while Madison detectives and a dive team looked for her downtown and on the UW campus.
“Divers went into Lake Mendota in the Union Terrace area,” (police spoksperson Joel) DeSpain said. “Detectives were also combing the area, checking with people at fraternity and sorority houses.”
Throughout Dane County, growing traffic congestion, aging roads and tight budgets point to the need for regional cooperation on transportation solutions.
That’s why Wednesday’s agreement between Madison and Dane County, envisioning a regional transit authority with the power to impose a 0.5 percent sales tax, is an important breakthrough.
The family of missing college student, Kelly Nolan, and Madison Police detectives and officers are continuing their search for Nolan, who has not been heard from for close to five days.
Nolan’s younger sister, April, said Nolan was out with friends in downtown Madison last Friday, June 23, but split off from them at 11:30 p.m. April Nolan said her sister made phone contact with a family member early Saturday morning, but that was the last she was heard from.
EDGERTON, Wis. — Authorities have identified the victim of a fatal crash Wednesday night on Interstate 90 as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Paula Poorman, 56, a psychology professor, pronounced dead at the crash scene Wednesday night.
“This is a huge loss to our campus family. Her colleagues, students and friends on campus will miss her greatly,” said Richard Telfer, interim chancellor at UW-Whitewater.
MADISON, Wis. — On short notice about 50 family and friends turned out for a vigil in downtown Madison Thursday night to support the family of a missing 22-year-old.
The group gathered at Library Mall to show support and bring more awareness to the community of Kelly Nolan’s disappearance.
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student Kelly Nolan hasn’t been seen since around midnight on Saturday, June 23, in downtown Madison, WISC-TV reported.
(LA CROSSE) The state budget passed by the Senate this week could limit the plans by the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to increase enrollment and to hire more faculty and staff.
UW-L officials had hoped for four million dollars in the next biannual budget to go towards financial aid and to increase enrollment. The plan had included the universityâ??s ability to raise tuition, which lawmakers rejected.
UW-L received $900,000 in the Senateâ??s version of the state budget, which Chancellor Joe Gow says could severely hamper UW-Lâ??s three-year Growth and Access Agenda. Gow says with the current allotment, instead of bringing in 1,000 new students, about 60 could be brought in and instead of hiring 135 new staff and faculty members, eight could be hired. (Fifth item.)
Madison gang issues have become more complex, Police Chief Noble Wray said at a packed Downtown Madison Inc. breakfast this morning.
“We still have the African-American gangs that arrived in the first surge of gang activity here in the late 1980s and 1990s,” he said. “We have Asian gangs. The latest surge that began in 2004 and is still continuing has brought an increase in Latino gangs and young girl gangs, with girls more violent than they used to be.”
And gang activity is not just here in Madison but all around Dane County, Wray added.
Dear Editor: Last year The Capital Times distinguished itself as the first mainstream U.S. daily to publish not one but two hard-hitting 9/11 truth op-ed columns — both by yours truly.
In one, I asked why the media weren’t covering the dozens of former high-level military, intelligence and administration officials who are charging or implying that 9/11 was an inside job. Then, instead of covering these generals, colonels, CIA officers, Bush administration officials and other notables, the media decided to cover a part-time university lecturer — me.
She’s so accomplished; she has called many presidents by their first names. In 1951, Vel Phillips became the first African American woman to graduate from UW Madison Law School. That was just the beginning. Hers has been a career of firsts.
Vel Phillips served on all three branches of government…legislative, judicial and executive. In 1956 she was the first woman to sit on Milwaukee’s Common Council.
Earlier this month when the University of Wisconsin Systems Board of Regents reined in overly cozy relationships between state campuses and private lenders who make loans to students we praised them for some necessary housecleaning.
The lenders were giving some state universities a share of revenues for putting them on the school’s preferred lender list and paying for training sessions for financial aid officials, out-of-state meetings, printing of brochures and other services.
The University of Wisconsin-River Falls has gone green.
Campus leaders have pledged to reduce and eventually eliminate the school’s share of the emissions believed to contribute to global warming. The move is part of a national initiative to create “climate-neutral” campuses. About 300 other colleges and universities have joined in.
“Global warming is a defining challenge of our time,” Chancellor Don Betz said. “Serious action is needed to stop adding global warming pollution to the atmosphere and University of Wisconsin-River Falls is committed to leading the way.”
Thumbs Down: To the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for a frustrating â?? and expensive â??end to the fiasco involving a former administrator who had an affair with a student and was accused of sexual harassment. As part of a settlement of racial discrimination claims that the administrator, Paul Barrows, made against UW-Madison, the school will pay him $135,000. In a dispute that lasted more than two years, Barrows was removed from his job as a vice-chancellor, given a leave of absence and then a lower-paying job before he left the university. Along the way, it shined a light on the university system’s sick leave policies and its practice of providing “backup jobs” to administrators who failed at their previous jobs. At least, let’s hope this ends the whole unfortunate saga.
Like others who from time to time find their way to newspaper offices, John Christian Saxer believes he grasps truths that elude almost everyone else. (Invariably, these folks dismiss the simpler explanation â?? that theyâ??re wrong â?? as wildly implausible. â??Absolutely not,â? says Saxer, when asked if this is possible.)
Colleges and financial institutions were justly criticized for their dubious links in student loan programs around the country, and now, it turns out, similar, questionable ties also exist in the issuance of bank cards.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh has given U.S. Bank exclusive dibs on student ID cards, which can double as debit and ATM cards.
States that have banned gay marriage are beginning to revoke the benefits of domestic partners of public employees. Michigan has gone farthest, prohibiting cities, universities and other public employers from offering benefits to same-sex partners. In all, 27 states have passed constitutional amendments defining marriage as the legally sanctioned union of a man and a woman. A Michigan court ruled in February that public employers may not offer benefits to unmarried partners, gay or straight, because of a 2004 amendment defining marriage.
The presidential election is more than a year and a half away but a video spoof about presidential candidate Barack Obama is big nationwide … and the creator is a UW grad.
Ben Relles says he never intended to generate so much political buzz. Relles simply wanted to make a funny video.
It’s called “I got a crush … on Obama” – a spoof on the hype surrounding Barack Obama’s presidential bid.
The chancellor of UW-Superior never read a professor’s defense against misconduct charges before convincing the UW Board of Regents to fire him in 2001, recently released documents show.
The University of Wisconsin System has agreed to pay $135,000 and withdraw a critical letter to settle a long-running dispute with a former top administrator.
Wisconsin puts itself at a costly disadvantage in the job market by failing to cover the domestic partners of state employees under the state’s family health insurance benefit.
That’s why lawmakers should put back into the state budget Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposal to extend health insurance to the partners of gay, lesbian and heterosexual state employees, including those in the University of Wisconsin System.
In April, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh sent letters to the parents of incoming freshmen promoting a special feature of its student IDs.
The TitanCard, the letter said, could double as a debit and ATM card if the student opened an account with U.S. Bank. Attached was a bank application.
What the university did not say was that U.S. Bank pays the university a cut of its revenue in exchange for the exclusive right to target students through campus IDs.
Or that Chancellor Richard Wells sits on U.S. Bank’s local advisory board. (This story also quotes UW-Madison Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell).
The University of Wisconsin system will pay $135,000 to settle a messy and much-publicized dispute with a black administrator who was ousted from his position on the system’s main campus following allegations of sexual harassment.
In a settlement made public on Friday, the university system’s Board of Regents agreed to pay the administrator, Paul W. Barrows, $124,000 plus $11,000 in back pay and to remove a letter critical of him from his employment records. And Mr. Barrows, who was vice chancellor for student affairs at Madison, will drop a number of pending employment and racial-discrimination claims against university faculty members and administrators.
Former U-W Madison Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows, whose use of paid sick leave to prospect for jobs was first exposed by 27 News, has settled his legal claims with the university.
A settlement made public says Barrows will receive 135-thousand dollars in return for dropping several legal claims.
UW-System spokesperson David Giroux told 27 News system attornies recommended the settlement to Board of Regent members as in the best interest of everyone involved.
Former U-W Madison Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows, who was forced to resign after he was accused of sexual harassment has settled his legal claims with the university.
A settlement made public today says Paul Barrows will receive 135-thousand dollars in return for dropping several legal claims.
UW-System spokesperson David Giroux told 27 News system attornies recommended the settlement to Board of Regent members as in the best interest of everyone involved.
In 2005, 27 News revealed that during Barrows’ eight month leave from absence from his $190,000 university position, he became a finalist for a similar post at the University of Texas. Much of Barrows’ absence was supported by sick leave.
MADISON, Wis. — A former University of Wisconsin-Madison vice chancellor forced to resign after he was accused of sexual harassment has settled his legal claims with the university.
A settlement made public on Friday said that Paul Barrows will receive $135,000 in return for dropping several legal claims.
The agreement ends a messy case that rocked the state’s flagship university and forced the regents to review their personnel policies.
MADISON — A former University of Wisconsin-Madison vice chancellor forced to resign after he was accused of sexual harassment will receive a $135,000 payment in return for dropping several legal claims against the university, according to a settlement made public Friday.
The UW System Board of Regents and Paul Barrows agreed to the settlement earlier this week, ending a messy case that had rocked the state’s flagship university and forced the regents to review their personnel policies.
Offering a glimpse of a policy debate to come on the future of the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, County Board members on Thursday homed in for the first time on the question of campus expansion or preservation.
The 12 universities that make up the Committee on Institutional Cooperation announced June 6 that they would join the Google Books Library Project, making up to 10 million volumes from their collections available for digitization and access through Googleâ??s search engine.
Educators, mental-health officials, and law-enforcement officers often do not share information about troubled students because they are confused by what they can disclose under complex and overlapping privacy laws, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and two other top Bush administration officials said in a report released Wednesday on the Virginia Tech shootings.
A federal report on the Virginia Tech shootings considers the misunderstanding of federal and state privacy laws to be a â??substantial obstacleâ? to the information sharing needed to protect students.
A commitment by Assembly Republicans to block any tax increases could mean a new two-year budget wouldnt pass the full Legislature, Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch R-West Salem said Wednesday.
It would be the first time ever that Wisconsin legislators didn’t agree on and pass a two-year budget.
Several years of flat state funding for the University of Wisconsin System have contributed to higher tuition, cuts in programming and more risk of losing star faculty to other universities.
The System, which provides high-quality education that benefits all of Wisconsin, deserves better than that. State lawmakers should value the state’s education jewel by giving it a significant boost in state funding.
An audit of state government spending on information technology reveals some bad news for taxpayers. The state spends millions every year on information technology projects, but state auditor Janice Mueller told a legislative committee that an audit of that spending reveals a couple of big problems.
Libraries have long struggled with a stuffy reputation, but on the UW-Madison campus and in some public branches, librarians are taking a decidedly fresh approach to attracting patrons by using social networking sites.
Thumbs Up: To the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, the Legislative Reference Bureau and the UW System, for teaming to put every one of the state Blue Books online, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
The University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents did some necessary housecleaning Friday when it adopted conflict of interest rules to sever cozy ties between campus officials and private lenders who make loans to students.The new rules ban university officials from receiving any payments from lenders in exchange for recommending the lender to student borrowers.
It sounds like the setup for a dull economistâ??s joke. Who gets the better deal: the cautious economist who sells his house through a real estate agent, or his risk-taking colleague who finds a buyer on his own?
Quoted: Francois Ortalo-Magne, an associate professor of real estate and urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and one of the three authors of the study.
A research team from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of California, Berkeley have developed virus scanning software they describe as the “next generation in malware detection.”
Instead of scanning for specific virus signatures, their Static Analyzer for Executables (SAFE) looks for suspicious behaviors typical of malware, such as reading an address book and sending e-mails.
A man who will be retried later this year for the 1980 rape and murder of a UW-Madison student will see his sordid past revealed to the jury.
Sophisticated, modern DNA testing has already refuted a key piece of evidence in Ralph Armstrong’s first trial, when he was convicted in 19-81 of the deadly violence against student Charise Kamps. Last year, the state supreme court ordered a retrial for Armstrong in reaction to the scientific testing which ruled out hairs on Kamps’ bathrobe belonging to Armstrong.
Prosecutors secured a major victory in the upcoming second trial of convicted killer and rapist Ralph Armstrong today when Dane County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Moeser ruled they could present evidence of Armstrong’s previous rape convictions in New Mexico as well as certain things he told other women in Madison in the weeks before he is accused of raping and murdering a University of Wisconsin student.
TWO EXCITED groups of Madison students — one from Cherokee Middle School and one from Memorial High School — left Wednesday for Las Vegas and the national finals of the African American History Challenge sponsored by the national organization of the 100 Black Men of America.
The competition is today and Friday at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas and is part of the 100 Black Men annual conference.
(The book that inspired the students was “The Negro in the Making of America,” written by UW-Madison alumnus Benjamin Quarles.)
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has prepared a fund-raising plan to acquire land for its proposed $143 million engineering campus, which civic leaders see as a driver of the region’s economic future.
The Big Ten is not just a collection of university sports teams.
It’s also the framework for a collaboration of major research universities that share ideas, courses, study-abroad programs and purchasing power.
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation, known as the CIC, is a consortium of 12 universities, including the 11 members of the Big Ten and the University of Chicago.
SACRAMENTO â?? A former Laotian military general and a former officer in the California National Guard were charged Monday in federal court with plotting a violent overthrow of Laos’ communist government.
General Vang Pao, a prominent Hmong leader who lives in Orange County, was charged with conspiracy to topple Laos leaders in a case that reads like it was taken from the pages of a spy novel.
A 124-year-old weather record was shattered Sunday in Madison, when an early evening cloudburst on Dane County’s east side dumped three inches of rain at the airport.
The total rainfall Sunday in Madison was 3.06 inches, eclipsing the old record of 2.4 inches for June 3, set in 1883.
….Two UW-Madison buildings had extensive flooding from the Sunday evening storm, but spokesman Dennis Chaptman said neither the Medical Sciences Center or Birge Hall have major damage and will only need water cleanup.
The federal Education Department, criticized for lax oversight of student loans, released proposed rules Friday that would set new standards for universities and ban lenders’ marketing practices that have resulted, in some cases, in loan company payoffs to university officials.
In Wednesday’s front-page story about the departures of many of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s finest faculty members, relatively small salaries were cited as a main reason. It’s fairly common knowledge that we are paid far less than our colleagues at peer institutions, not to mention at institutions that lack the UW’s prestige.
Less known are other irritations that have many of us thinking of packing our bags. Let me mention one that I find particularly galling: the policy for reimbursement of travel expenses.
