A Middleton man who attacked a girl in a Walmart parking zone on Friday was arrested in her car after the tires have been flattened throughout a chase, police reported.
At about 7:45 a.m. Friday, the lady was loading groceries when she was attacked and had her 2013 Land Rover stolen and an worker who got here to her assist was injured within the lot of Walmart, 4198 Nakoosa Path, Madison police stated.
At about 10:30 a.m., the Columbia County Sheriff’s Workplace Dispatch Middle was notified by the Sauk County Sheriff’s Workplace Dispatch Middle that that they had simply terminated a pursuit of the 2013 Land Rover, which was believed to be heading east on Freeway 60 getting into Columbia County, Lodi Police Chief Wayne Smith stated in an announcement.
At about 10:35 a.m., a Columbia County Sheriff’s Workplace sergeant noticed the Land Rover heading east on Freeway 60 simply west of Lodi, and Smith tried a site visitors cease of the Land Rover in Lodi, however the driver refused, Smith stated.
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A short while after the pursuit started, a second Lodi officer deployed a tire deflation gadget on the Land Rover, which headed out of city on Freeway 113 south, ultimately crossing into Dane County. The pursuit speeds have been lowered as a result of tires of the Land Rover being deflated, and ultimately the car spun out and got here to a cease on Freeway 113, Smith stated.
The one that was driving the Land Rover then tried to flee on foot, however was rapidly arrested, Smith stated.
The motive force, Keewan Jamel Singleton, 34, was taken to the Columbia County Jail on tentative fees of felony eluding, working a motorized vehicle with out the proprietor’s consent, and miscellaneous site visitors offenses. Madison and the Sauk County Sheriff’s Workplace might have extra fees, Smith stated.
No accidents have been reported, however the incident resulted in minor harm to the Land Rover and a Columbia County Sheriff’s Workplace squad automotive, Smith stated.
However for the armored autos, additional barricades and rooftop surveillance groups, Sunday was simply one other dreary winter day on Madison’s Capitol Sq..
Gov. Tony Evers additionally introduced that Karen Timberlake, who served as DHS secretary below former Gov. Jim Doyle throughout the 2009 swine flu pandemic, will tackle the position of DHS interim secretary.
Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney is retiring to take a job at American Household Insurance coverage.
Barnes turns into the town’s third Black police chief and should take care of a pointy uptick in shootings and automotive thefts.
Alliant Power stated the choice will permit it to keep away from some $250 million in upkeep and improve prices.
The Division of Pure Assets reported at 4 p.m. Wednesday that hunters had registered 182 wolves for the reason that hunt started Monday, or about 15% of the estimated inhabitants. The quota for non-native hunters was 119 wolves.
Raine Stern, initially from New Glarus, dazzled judges on the NBC present “The Voice” Monday evening, prompting decide Blake Shelton to say, “You are a uncommon discover. And also you’re about to have your second within the music trade.”
The Madison College District reopened its doorways to kindergartners Tuesday after shutting down practically one yr in the past as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
President Joe Biden stated Thursday he wished states to make everybody eligible by Might 1.
For the reason that begin of the outbreak, Gov. Tony Evers has issued a number of public well being emergencies and a sequence of associated orders.
“The one house World Dairy Expo has identified is Dane County, Wisconsin, and we’re able to welcome the dairy trade’s premier occasion again to our group this fall,” Dane County Government Joe Parisi stated.
5 of the six deaths occurred at evening, and alcohol, velocity and inattentiveness on the a part of drivers and pedestrians doubtless factored into the deaths as Dane County experiences a excessive yr for site visitors fatalities.
Barry Alvarez, 74, will end his time period main the UW athletic program this summer time after a 17-year stretch within the seat throughout which the division’s price range practically doubled.
“I am able to get to work on day one and construct a stronger extra equitable public training system,” Jill Underly stated after successful the state superintendent election.
Masks sporting and social distancing have been a uncommon sight Saturday on the annual gathering, which took a yr off in 2020 as the continuing COVID-19 pandemic set in final spring.
Madison officers are taking a sluggish method to interrupt up a homeless encampment at Reindahl Park on the East Aspect.
But with youngsters youthful than 12 nonetheless not eligible to be vaccinated, and a few others not immunized, the pandemic “is emphatically not over, even in Dane County.”
“Being on this neighborhood and rising up in Madison, it is at all times been a staple locally. It is so good to see such an excellent turnout coming off the yr we simply got here off of.”
Paddle & Portage and the Dane County Farmers Market returned to the isthmus and Capitol Sq. on Saturday for the primary time since 2019.
Trump on Friday claimed Wisconsin Republicans weren’t doing sufficient to research the November election.
The Senate voted 23-9, with Democratic Senate Minority Chief Janet Bewley, of Mason, and Sen. Brad Pfaff, D-Onalaska, becoming a member of with Republicans, in favor of the price range, which incorporates greater than $3 billion in earnings and property tax cuts.
Chandler Halderson stays within the Dane County Jail on $1 million bond. He’s subsequent in courtroom on Sept. 1.
At challenge was a 2011 legislation that claims state businesses can’t take any actions that aren’t explicitly approved by the Legislature.
The Milwaukee Bucks grabbed their first NBA title in 50 years Tuesday in entrance of a worldwide viewers.
“It’s not the rock’s fault that it obtained that horrible and unlucky nickname,” one bystander stated. “However the truth that it’s … being moved exhibits that the world is getting slightly higher at present.”
After pleading responsible to 2 federal fees, David Kruchten faces six to twenty years in jail, below a plea settlement.
Refugees fleeing Afghanistan after the federal government’s collapse to the Taliban began arriving in Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy Sunday afternoon.
For the primary time for the reason that 2019 season, soccer followers of the Wisconsin Badgers get an opportunity to return to the acquainted environment of Camp Randall.
After greater than a yr of repairs, the 2 statues that have been torn down throughout final summer time’s protests have been restored to the Capitol Sq. Tuesday morning.
Tony Evers stated “it is about time” that the Senate take up a few of the greater than 100 appointees nonetheless ready on affirmation votes.
“Every of them have been ‘shiny lights’ inside our scholar physique: optimistic, form, humorous, inclusive. The lack of their presence will influence our college students and workers profoundly.”
A Madison police officer “inadvertently” shot and injured a fellow officer throughout the arrest of a person who pointed a loaded handgun at police on State Road on Oct. 10, state officers stated Monday.
After practically a decade on the helm of UW-Madison, main the college by price range cuts, political battles and a pandemic, Chancellor Rebe…
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Madison Hearth Chief Steven Davis stated Tuesday that he’s retiring on April 1, 2022, ending a profession of greater than three a long time with the Madison Hearth Division.
The vessel was present in June in 27 ft of water and is the oldest intact boat ever found in Wisconsin waters.
COVID vaccines for youngsters ages 5 to 11 have been inexperienced lit by the Wisconsin Division of Well being Companies Wednesday, lower than 24 hours after the federal Middle for Illness Management additionally OK’d inoculation for the youngest group but.
The GOP-drawn maps, which handed the Republican-controlled state Meeting and Senate final week, would largely preserve the core of the present district boundaries that Republicans drew in secret in 2011.
About 50 folks attended a group “converse out” occasion in Penn Park Friday evening, criticizing police therapy of the town’s Black youth in latest weeks.
Wagner, who died Monday after serving the higher Madison group in numerous methods for a half-century, is being remembered as a person of kindness, knowledge, magnificence, caring and style.
The Badgers volleyball workforce captured the primary nationwide championship in program historical past with an exciting five-set victory over Massive Ten rival Nebraska within the NCAA remaining in Columbus, Ohio.
