A suspect arrested early Saturday for allegedly forcing a woman to go with him at knifepoint could be a suspect in other sexual assaults on or near the UW-Madison campus. Oscar Aguilar-Ruvalcaba, 21, Madison, was taken into custody at about 4:10 a.m. Saturday after Madison and campus police set up a perimeter in the area the victim said he could be in.
It?s our southern gateway. And for decades, no single street in Madison has better represented our success and our missteps. It?s our social, fiscal and racial barometer, and we?ve forgotten how it came to be ? how we forced it to be.
Madison police are looking for a group of men who punched and kicked a 27-year-old Madison man Wednesday morning on West Johnson Street near Campus Mall.
A 20-year-old Madison man was arrested Thursday morning after Madison police said he knocked over 20 mopeds in the 500 block of University Avenue. Many of the mopeds were damaged, police said.
Noted: University of Wisconsin, Madison tweeted her a “huge congrats,” and retweeted a post from BabieFaceRunde, who wrote, “@marissamayer was my babysitter!!!! Wausau pride!!”
Of all the experiences Madison native Katherine Anderson has gained while student teaching near Kasese, Uganda, perhaps one of the most important was to “fall in love with teaching again.” Anderson, 23 and a Memorial High School graduate, left for Uganda after graduating with honors in elementary education from UW-Madison. She applied for the UW International Academic Program through the School of Education. She and fellow UW graduate Jenna Oskey are teaching at Rwentutu Christian Community School in the small village of Rwentutu near Kasese, Uganda.
The University of Wisconsin ? Eau Claire?s interim president begins his term.
Gilles Bousquet has called Madison home for about 30 years, but he still retains some of his French accent.
If you?re reading these lines it?s because of this man. He?s Dave Winer, the inventor of blogs and RSS syndication, two of the backbones of the web. Often controversial, always challenging, this is the story of what got him inspired to do it all.
Madison police said a 20-year-old man was beaten and robbed by a group of men early Sunday morning in downtown Madison. Police said the incident occurred about 3:30 a.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of College Court near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Madison Police Chief Noble Wray on Thursday joined the chorus of official protests against the Mifflin Street Block Party, declaring that the city can?t afford “an end-of-the-school-year bash funded by taxpayers.”
PLATTEVILLE (WKOW) ? University of Wisconsin-Platteville police are looking for the people responsible for an attempted robbery that happened Saturday night on campus.
Genetics researchers at Washington University, one of the world?s leading centers for work on the human genome, were devastated. Dr. Lukas Wartman, a young, talented and beloved colleague, had the very cancer he had devoted his career to studying.
Scott Walker is the third governor to bring low-cost competition in higher education to his state. Governors Rick Perry of Texas and Mitch Daniels of Indiana have given special priority to Western Governors University (even though WGU is available to all). Now Walker has proposed a flexible competency-based degree à la WGU, but conducted by the University of Wisconsin?Extension.
A suicidal man with hazardous chemicals in his car caused a UW parking lot to be closed for a time Thursday morning, the Madison Fire Department reported. Crews were called to lot 60, 801 Walnut St. near UW Hospital, for a suicidal person at 5:10 a.m., Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Bernadette Galvez told Madison.com.
Police say three men hosting the party, which was advertised on Facebook, were cited for underage drinking and dispensing alcohol without a permit. Officers say when they got there, there were about 100 people in the street. The victim was found lying in some grass near a church. Police think he was carried away from the party area. Tests show the teenager had a blood alcohol content of .22.
MADISON, Wis.- A 16-year-old boy ended up injured and unconscious outside a house party near the UW campus early Sunday morning, according to Madison police, and officers are trying to figure out whether someone beat the teen up. The incident happened just after midnight Sunday in the 300 block of North Breese Terrace.
When I taught a course titled “Introduction to the City” in the UW-Madison Geography Department last spring, I had my students view an online lecture by Professor John Merriman of Yale University.
President Barack Obama has nominated U.S. Magistrate Sheri Polster Chappell to a judgeship in Florida?s Middle District.
This month alone, authorities are investigating four possible drownings in Dane County.
A doctoral student in education at UW-Madison was charged Monday with 10 counts of possessing child pornography that was allegedly discovered on his home computer and his cellphone. A criminal complaint against Jay A. Babcock, 31, also alleges that he admitted to taking an “up skirt” cellphone picture of a young girl who is the classmate at a Fitchburg elementary school of another student whom Babcock was studying as part of his graduate school program.
A young man was rescued Monday morning from the waters of Lake Mendota after trying to swim across the lake, just a few days after a young man drowned in the lake. The Madison Fire Department Lake Rescue team was called to the shoreline of Lake Mendota at about 5 a.m. Monday, after a woman called 911 to report her boyfriend was in the water and was struggling to get back to shore. The rescue team went to 140 Iota Court, just east of the UW-Madison campus.
By any standard, the Internet ranks as one of the leading innovations of our time. It has revolutionized everything from commerce to medicine to entertainment, all within the confines of a generation.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior is shut down after flooding on campus.
No one was injured in a boat fire on Lake Mendota Tuesday night, authorities reported. “The UW-Madison lifesaving boat and the Maple Bluff Fire Department boat were dispatched to the scene and assisted in getting the boat to the dock,” said Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth in the release.
An open data ordinance is moving through the legislative process in Madison, Wis. Championed by Scott Resnick, an alderperson on Madison?s Common Council, the proposal seeks to codify a movement that?s gaining momentum inside and outside of City Hall. Drawing on best practices of other cities across the country, Resnick expects that the law will be approved by Mayor Paul R. Soglin and the Common Council in July or August.
An electrical problem likely caused the weekend fire in Wittich Hall, the second University of Wisconsin-La Crosse building to catch fire in less than six months, according to a Monday announcement from campus officials.
A fire has damaged one of the oldest buildings at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Brent Smith?s election last week as president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is great news for western Wisconsin and the entire UW System.
Two 21-year-old American students have walked out of the New Zealand wilderness after a snowstorm trapped them for nine days. Police say they survived by rationing their meager supplies of trail mix and warming themselves in hot springs.
MADISON (WKOW) — A Green Bay man was convicted of stabbing another man at last year?s Mifflin Street block party. 23-year-old Colin Rosenow pleaded no contest to a charge of first-degree reckless endangerment. He was originally charged with attempted homicide, but it was reduced as part of a plea deal.
Madison Police Department detectives, acting on a tip, traveled to the Chicago area Wednesday with hopes of apprehending Mr. Darrion D. Brown, age 20, Fitchburg on a tentative charge of Attempted Homicide. Working in concert with Cook County Sheriff?s Department detectives, a search warrant was executed around 6:00 p.m. on a Dolton, Illinois residence. Dolton is a community between Chicago and Gary, Indiana.
The second alleged shooter in the May 19 University Avenue shooting was arrested Wednesday night near Chicago. Darrion Brown, 20, was taken into custody without incident at about 6 p.m. at a residence in Dolton, Ill., a suburb between Chicago and Gary, Ind., according to Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain.
Aaron Brower is typical of many academics in that he generally takes a well-reasoned, measured approach when addressing various topics with reporters. So the choice of words from UW-Madison?s vice provost for teaching and learning was telling when he was asked to comment on a rash of recent media accounts pointing to a potential seminal shift in how higher education is delivered to students.
In a knowledge economy, we are often told the smartest cities and nations do the best. But economists typically measure smart cities by education level, calculating the cities or metros with the largest percentage of college grads or the largest shares of adults with advanced degrees. Others (like me) do it by charting the kinds of work people do and the occupations they hold, differentiating between knowledge or creative workers and others who do more routine manufacturing and service jobs.
Madison Fire Department?s rescue team trained at the Kohl Center Monday. The Heavy Urban Rescue Team was rappelling and practicing high ropes.
Madison firefighters took to the roof of the Kohl Center on the University of Wisconsin campus on Monday for heavy urban rescue training.
Tuition and fees this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would top $10,000 for in-state students, and UW-Milwaukee would be close behind, if a recommended tuition increase of 5.5% is approved by the Board of Regents this week.
Wisconsin sports teams spend plenty of time practicing in the Kohl Center, and on Monday a special group of Madison firemen will do the same. Instead of training on a court or rink, though, they will use ropes courses to practice some of the more complicated rescues Dane County needs. The Madison Fire Department?s Heavy Urban Rescue Team, which a city news release said uses “complex rescue techniques” to respond to emergencies like building collapses anywhere in the county, will train at the UW-Madison arena Tuesday afternoon.
The books have been put away, the jackhammers are primed, let the road construction season at UW-Madison begin. Road work this week is mainly around the Charter Street Heating Plant and on Observatory Drive, according to a news release from the UW-Madison news service. Rail lines near the heating plant are being removed because there is no longer a need for coal to be delivered to the plant.
Race officials say they don’t know how much blame to place on a controversy involving Planned Parenthood, noting that a difficult economy has hurt many fundraising efforts. Gloria Ladson-Billings, a UW-Madison professor who describes her views on abortion as somewhat conflicted, said she had some initial concerns with Komen?s handling of the Planned Parenthood issue but has decided to continue participating in the race.
“It became clear to me that the local chapter wasn?t linked to any of this, and in the end, I feel the race is so important it outweighs some of the other stuff.” Ladson-Billings, a breast cancer survivor, organizes a team of more than 100 people through Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Madison.
To the surprise of no one, the Chicago Blackhawks officially consider the pictures from Patrick Kane?s weekend adventure in Wisconsin to be bad publicity.
This week the News Republic examined the educational paths charted by three students through the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County and the impact they have had on the Baraboo community.
Madison police have identified a 20-year-old Fitchburg man as a suspect in the shootings that wounded at least three people early Saturday on University Avenue. Darrion D. Brown, who is being sought on a tentative charge of attempted homicide, should be considered armed and dangerous, said police spokesman Joel DeSpain. “Anyone seeing him should call 911,” DeSpain said. Brown could be driving a gold-colored 2001 Mercury Sable four-door car with Wisconsin license plate number 969-TLW, police said.
Three short streets near the UW-Madison campus will be closed for most of the summer so they can be rebuilt. The Madison Traffic Engineering Division said in a news release on Monday that stretches of North Orchard Street, Spring Street and Capitol Court will be closed to through traffic beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday, May 24.
More than one shooter is believed to have fired into a crowd of young bar goers early Saturday morning on University Avenue, Madison police say. Spokesman Joel DeSpain told Madison.com the shooting incident in which three people were injured wasn?t random. “It?s an ongoing dispute between many individuals,” DeSpain said. “There were multiple guns used and more than one shooter.”
Police are also looking to see if the incident is possibly connected to other incidents of gun violence in the city. Anyone with information about the shootings, or about the unidentified injured man who left the scene, should call Crime Stoppers, 266-6014.
An early-morning shooting just off the UW-Madison campus has officials again searching for solutions to the city?s growing problem with gun violence….The incident was something of a black eye for a city hosting UW-Madison graduation ceremonies this weekend. Area business owners said Saturday the problem has been growing since last summer. In fact, the owners of Johnny O?s and Wando?s Bar, also located in the 600 block of University Avenue, met with Mayor Paul Soglin on Wednesday to discuss the violence outside of their clubs. Ald. Mike Verveer, 4th District, attended the meeting. He said the men felt helpless to stop ?thuggish? people loitering on the streets near the bars.
The former chief executive of Yahoo, a UW-Madison alum, advised new graduates Sunday to look past the headlines that warn about the lackluster economy and the bleak jobs picture. ?Don?t believe that the events of today are the only ones that are going to shape your future,? Carol Bartz, 63, said in one of the university?s four graduation ceremonies at the Kohl Center.
?Your work life is very long. In fact, you are the first generation that?s preparing for a 50-year career,? she said to nervous laughter from graduates and their family members.
After many years without permanent artistic leadership at Milwaukee?s most important contemporary arts venue, Inova will soon have a new director.
Sara Krajewski, curator at the Henry Art Gallery, a contemporary art center at the University of Washington in Seattle, will become the director at Inova, or the Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Krajewski, who got her bachelor?s degree in art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has commented on the controversy surrounding her replacement Scott Thompson, who was found to have falsely claimed that he earned a computer science degree and is now facing calls for his ouster.
A 21-year-old woman living near the UW-Madison campus called police after hearing a man whispering lewd remarks to her through the bedroom window. The incident happened on May 1 at about 9:20 p.m. in the 400 block of West Dayton Street, according to a Madison police news release.
With chancellors leaving Wisconsin?s public campuses for jobs that pay tens – perhaps hundreds – of thousands more annually, university leaders are looking at whether private foundations could provide extra money to help retain them.
Members of the UW-Madison Faculty Senate had many questions for members of the human resources redesign team following a presentation Monday.
A 19-year-old Illinois man was hospitalized early Saturday morning after a fight between two groups of men near the UW-Madison campus, Madison police reported. The victim, from Elmhurst, Ill., was knocked unconscious during the fight, which was reported at 1:08 a.m. Saturday on College Court, police said in a news release. Witnesses said the two groups of men had been involved in a dispute which escalated.
The City of Madison was still standing Sunday morning in the wake of the Mifflin Street Block Party, which brought fewer attendees but also less violence to the capstone drinking event at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison professor Dave Brown and his wife Rachel Brown beat out ten other pairs to win the 20th season of CBS? ?The Amazing Race,? claiming the contest?s $1 million prize.
In the 1960s, social change and student activism ? both violent and non-violent ? defined the University of Wisconsin campus, and now that history echoes weakly as attendance dwindled at the Mifflin Street Block Party this weekend.
It figures that, in the midst of the tropical splendor of Hawaii, the final episode of “The Amazing Race” would come down to two very Wisconsin skills ? sledding and bowling. And it was enough to give Madison?s Dave and Rachel Brown the edge ? and the million dollars ? as they won “Amazing Race 20,” the season finale aired Sunday on CBS. It was a commanding win ? the Army helicopter pilot and his wife, who works at Epic Systems in Verona, won eight legs of the race, a series record.
A Madison couple who appeared on the CBS show “The Amazing Race” has outlasted 10 other couples to win the $1 million grand prize.
A change in name and venue this year promises to bolster an event aimed at bringing the joy of gardening to families. UW Family Gardening Day is planned for Saturday on the UW-Madison campus. In the past, the event was held at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station on Mineral Point Road and was called Family Horticulture Day. ?If you?ve been before and seen the same things every year, this is definitely something different,? said Johanna Oosterwyk, research program manager in UW-Madison?s Department of Horticulture and organizer of Family Gardening Day.
