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After shooting, Downtown leaders join in push to improve safety

DEAN MOSIMAN | Wisconsin State Journal | dmosiman@madison.com | 608-252-6141

Updated: 10:03 amDowntown leaders are joining Madison officials in a push to improve safety in response to violence — especially brazen behavior with guns — in…
May 24, 2012 8:00 am
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Police identify suspect in University Avenue shootings

SANDY CULLEN | Wisconsin State Journal | scullen@madison.com | 608-252-6137

Updated: 8:06 amMadison police have identified a 20-year-old Fitchburg man, Darrion D. Brown, as a suspect in the shootings that wounded at least three people…
May 24, 2012 7:45 am
Fitzgerald, Compas stake out familiar ground in recall debate

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Updated: 9:24 amJEFFERSON — State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, and his recall opponent, Lori Compas, agreed on one topic Wednesday night: There never has …
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Mom prevents potential gunfight on southwest side, police say

A Madison mother prevented a possible gun fight in her apartment building Wednesday night after yelling at the combatants, one with gun in his waistband, to get out of the building.

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Education

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Campus Connection: UW-Madison class launches edUtopia Wisconsin site

Instead of examining the many problems dogging public education today, students focus their reporting on “advancing the conversations happening in society in order to provide fodder for a dialogue about possible solutions.”

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Waunakee sixth-graders raise $5,000 for cancer victim's family, donor doubles it

Sixth graders at Waunakee Intermediate School learned a lot about life this semester through the death of a local man who taught many of them about sports.