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  • Sterling Hall bomber Armstrong arrested after $800,000 cash found in vehicle 

    Convicted Sterling Hall bomber Karl Armstrong was arrested last week in Chicago after state troopers found more than $800,000 cash in heat-sealed bags stashed inside of a motor home that Armstrong was driving, according to a document filed Monday in court.. .

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  • Reconstructing Patrick Kane’s Drunken Weekend In Madison, With Eyewitness Testimony 

    On Monday we showed you photos of a soused Patrick Kane in Madison, Wis., and then we asked you if you knew more about what happened while Kane was there. We had heard some bad stories—that Kane supposedly choked a woman, that Kane supposedly said anti-Semitic things—and we wanted to know if other people had, too..

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  • For a limited time, you can get the blues with new Union Terrace chairs 

    Like the blue M&Ms introduced in 1995, blue chairs have joined the famous traditional orange, green and yellow seats on the Memorial Union Terrace. But unlike the popular candy, the 300 "Mendota Blue" terrace chairs will be in use for only a limited time. . .

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  • ‘Cinco de Mifflin’ met with ethical questions 

    Stabbings at last May’s Mifflin Street Block Party mired the future of the event in uncertainty for the past 12 months. Its occurrence now all but certain, the block party is still unable to outrun controversy, as the first Saturday in May of 2012 happens to be the fifth—also known as the date of Cinco de Mayo. The combination of events in plans for the upcoming celebrations has members of the university community concerned with cultural insensitivity. . .

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  • UW dean’s anti-Mifflin Street Block Party video bashed, parodied 

    On Sunday, UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam produced an awkward, stilted YouTube video advising students "Don't go" to this year's Mifflin Street Block Party. The video went viral and students almost immediately began to heckle Berquam on social media..

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  • Terrace time: 8 things we all can do to make Madison’s best hangout even better 

    Every day in the summer, an average of 15,000 people crowd the Memorial Union, a staggering figure considering school is out for almost everyone except for overachievers and grad students. .

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  • ‘Monona institution’: The East Side Club marks it’s 100th anniversary 

    Ann Badeau comes from a family where four generations were members of the East Side Club, and three of those generations were on hand for the organization’s 100th anniversary open house Sunday. About 200 of the organization’s 325 members and their guests turned out for cake, coffee and conversation at the group’s Monona Drive clubhouse, which was built in 1954. . .

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  • Presidential hopeful Ron Paul to visit UW-Madison 

    As the April 3 presidential primary approaches, the Republican candidates are bringing their campaigns to Wisconsin, including U.S. Rep. More »

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  • The United States’ Most Whimsical Police Reporter 

    Last week, the world fell in love with a moderately ambitious, hamburger-loving crackhead from America's badger state. The real star of that story, however, was not the arrested, James Summers, but, rather, the public servant troubadour whose eloquent description of the crimes brought Summers' deeds to fame.. .

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  • MADISON CAPITAL TIMES SPIKES STORY BASED ON FAKE PRESS RELEASE 

    The Madison Capital Times apologized Saturday after posting a story based on a prank press release about Rep. Paul Ryan and other Wisconsin Republicans pressuring the Smithsonian to remove posters from last year’s protests at the state Capitol from its archives..

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  • Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop faces weapon and drug charges 

    A man who police say legally changed his name to Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop faces weapon and drug charges after he was found drinking and using drugs in the area of Reynolds Park on Madison's Near East Side on Thursday afternoon, Madison police said.. .

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  • Thrilla at the Villa: Angry customer crashes car into tavern door, police say 

    A 38-year-old Madison man faces numerous charges after being thrown out of a north side bar Saturday evening, threatening to come back with a weapon, driving his car into the bar's entrance and eventually crashing into an embankment before his arrest, Madison police reported.
    Shane Maynard was tentatively charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct while armed, use of a dangerous weapon, resisting or obstructing, drunken driving and reckless driving, following his arrest along U.S. 51 just north of Anderson Street, police said.
    According to a police news release, Maynard was at Villa Tap, 2302 Packers Ave., around 6:15 p.m. More »

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