Downtown officers have detained a person of interest after a 60-year-old homeless man was attacked while sleeping on a State Street bench early Tuesday morning.

Madison police said the victim sustained cuts to his wrists, face and neck that required numerous sutures to close.

It is not known what type of weapon was involved, police said.

The victim told police that he is acquainted with the man who has been detained. Police said the incident is believed to be an isolated incident.

The motive for the attack is under investigation, officials said.

Listeners of Tracy and Mike in the Morning on 96.3 Star Country radio in Madison pledged $528,507 for American Family Children’s Hospital in the eighth annual Champions for Kids Radiothon. 

Officials said that eclipses last year’s Radiothon which raised $506,238.

The three-day, 39-hour radio broadcast hosted by Tracy Dixon and Mike Heller of Clear Channel Radio station 96.3 Star Country ended Friday night with the announcement of the grand total. 

Former and current patients, some of the most seriously ill children, and their families told their personal stories during the Radiothon.

For more information on American Family Children’s Hospital, go to www.uwhealthkids.org.

Bit by bit over the last two decades, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's iconic Washburn Observatory has been restored to its original sheen.

The dome was refurbished in the 1990s and the building itself was restored and updated in 2009. And this week, a final but crucial touch up -- the cleaning and refurbishment of the glass lenses and the brass cell that holds them in the 240-inch-long telescope tube -- was completed with the help of John Augustine, an antique instrument specialist from Parkman, Ohio.

"There aren't too many guys who do this kind of thing," explains Jim Lattis, director of UW-Madison's Space Place and the official custodian of the observatory and its antique refracting telescope.