Thursday, July 7
Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney announces that one of his deputies attempted to harm himself on July 6 after going home and finding his terminally ill wife dead. The 60-year-old woman died of natural causes; Mahoney did not release the man’s name.
A woman is beaten and choked to unconsciousness by a man outside a gas station at 318 S. Park St. Passersby intervened and scared off the assailant. The woman later told police she knew her attacker and that the two had been in a dispute over money.
Sen. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) threatens that an “offensive” article assigned by a UW-Madison sociology lecturer could have “budget ramifications” for the entire UW System next year, the AP reports. The article, assigned for a class on sexuality, is about gay men’s sexual desires, which Nass apparently thinks is icky.
Friday, July 8
The Beaver Dam Daily Citizen reports that one of the police officers injured in a mass shooting in Dallas July 7 was a 2015 graduate of Madison College. Gretchen Rocha, 23, who graduated from the Dallas police academy in June, received minor shrapnel injuries but was released Friday morning, her father, Craig Bayer, told the paper. “She’s actually going in to work tonight,” he added.
Monday, July 11
Dane County Circuit Judge Peter Anderson sides with Enbridge Energy, ruling that the Canadian oil pipeline company cannot be required by the county to carry spill insurance. But the fight isn’t over yet. The issue will return to court Sept. 27 to determine whether the county would have approved pipeline expansion without the insurance requirement.
Tuesday, July 12
About 30 signs bearing a message in support of the Madison Police Department are stolen from yards in the Meadowood neighborhood on the city’s southwest side, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Organizer Dave Glomp vowed he would replace the signs. “I’m not going to let the bad guys win.”
