Posted on Monday, 2nd March 2009 by Bruce
Planning to join the throngs of Wisconsinites flocking to gun retailers to partake in your Second Amendment privileges? Get ready to coin up. Gun and ammo purchases have surged in the months following last November’s election, and don’t think that Doyle and other politicians haven’t noticed. While it’s still legal to purchase a handgun in [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 3rd June 2008 by Bruce
Yesterday, The Capital Times quietly posted a story which no one else seems to have noticed. According to the story, on Monday, Madison police charged a man, Henry L. Leshoure, 54, with stealing a rent check from a mailbox while wandering, publicly intoxicated, from porch-to-porch at residences just blocks away from the scene of two [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 15th May 2008 by Bruce
Omar Haban-Megahed was found dead in his Monroe Street, Madison home in 1998. Madison police detectives ruled it an “overdose”, even though family and friends allegedly told police repeatedly that Omar, an attorney and avid cyclist, didn’t use drugs. Blood tests eventually showed no recreational drugs in Omar’s system. To this day, 10 years later, [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 13th May 2008 by Bruce
This afternoon, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, The Wisconsin State Journal, WTMJ-TV of Milwaukee and WISC-TV of Madison announced that they have filed a lawsuit against Dane County and the City of Madison for withholding public records documents surrounding the 911 call which preceded Brittany Zimmermann being found murdered in her Madison home. The suit seeks a [...]
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Posted on Monday, 12th May 2008 by Bruce
Coincidence? We’ll probably never know. In any event, James P. Bohanan, wanted by Madison police for the murder of a Waunakee man “in cold blood” at a house party in Madison last July, was arrested this afternoon “without incident” in Chicago. They were acting on a “tip” from the Madison Police Department. A few days [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 11th May 2008 by Bruce
From an article in today’s Wisconsin State Journal. Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and news editor of the weekly alternative newspaper Isthmus, said the police department is losing public trust over what he called “the high level of inexplicable secrecy ” in police handling of the cases, especially issues involving [...]
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