The Dane County Sheriff’s Office will offer an internet safety presentation on protecting children to interested parents March 20.

According to a statement, the free event will focus on issues surrounding Facebook, cyber bulling and online predators.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shows one in three teens have experienced online harassment, one of several statistics the statement highlighted.

The presentation will take place at the Westport Meeting Room at 5387 Mary Lake Rd. at 6 p.m.

A Madison flower shop was nearly robbed on Valentine's Day by a man armed with a handgun, according to police.

The lone employee at Rose Cottage Floral at 3010 Atwood Ave. said a man entered the store before 8 p.m. asking to buy flowers when the back door opened and a man entered displaying a handgun.

The employee was holding a paring knife and started swinging at the robber, prompting him to leave, according to police.

Nothing was taken.

The man is described as white, in his 30s, shorter and wearing a dark hood with a drawstring.

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A 20-year-old Madison woman told police that she was punched in the face by a stranger after they encountered each other on a sidewalk.

Police said the woman was walking in the 1000 block of West Johnson Street Tuesday afternoon when she met paths with a man walking in the opposite direction.

She said she veered right to pass and the man responded by walking into her path. She told police an "awkward kind of dance" ensued as she tried to pass the man.

During this she said she made eye contact with the man, he smiled and punched her in the face.

The woman said she walked home and called police.

The man is described as black or Hispanic, in his 40s, 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a stocky build, dark eyes, light moustache and wearing a tan jacket and white knit hat.