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Former UW-Madison student Alec Shiva will be sentenced in September for sexually assaulting and suffocating another student in a dorm room last year.
CITY NEWS

Former UW student Alec Shiva pleads guilty in sexual assault case

Expelled UW-Madison student Alec Shiva, who was accused last November of sexually assaulting another student in a campus dorm room while high on LSD, pleaded guilty to three felonies and two misdemeanors Wednesday. The felonies, charged in the Dane County Circuit Court, include second-degree sexual assault, strangulation and suffocation and false imprisonment.


A sexual assault — which reportedly occurred last Thursday — was reported to UW-Madison Monday.
CAMPUS NEWS

Phone scam posing as campus police targets UW students

A well-known phone scam has re-emerged and is targeting UW-Madison students, particularly international students, according to a release issued Tuesday by the UW-Madison Police Department. UWPD received multiple reports from students over the past few days of a caller posing as a campus police officer.


Infighting between top Republican leaders has caused the state’s two-year budget to miss its June 30 deadline.
STATE NEWS

State budget misses deadline, stalled over transportation

Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature will not pass the state’s two-year budget on time due to disputes between leaders in the Assembly and Senate over how to fund road and highway projects. The state’s current budget ran out on June 30, a date that arrived without a consensus between the two chambers.


Expelled UW-Madison student Alec Cook is facing another felony charge, in sexual assault cases now involving eleven women, after being accused of cornering a student in a dormitory laundry room in 2014. 
CITY NEWS

Cook to face another felony charge in cases now involving 11 women

Expelled UW-Madison student Alec Cook, who is set to go to trial on nearly two dozen criminal counts including second-degree sexual assault, strangulation and stalking, will face another felony charge after an 11th woman reported he cornered her in a dormitory building. The newest charges, false imprisonment and disorderly conduct, were filed late last month and released to the public Wednesday, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.



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