A man convicted of killing a Green Bay area woman in 2016 because of her boyfriend's drug debt has been given a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison.

Brown and Racine counties have two new district attorneys after Gov. Scott Walker made appointments on Thursday.

A mid-February trial date has been set for Green Bay Packers linebacker Erik Walden on a disorderly conduct-domestic abuse charge.

Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday appointed veteran Brown County District Attorney John Zakowski to the county’s circuit court bench.

Green Bay Packers linebacker Erik Walden has been charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct-domestic abuse following a fight with his girlfriend.

By CARRIE ANTLFINGER Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Green Bay Packers linebacker Erik Walden was released from jail Monday after spending the weekend behind bars following his arrest on suspicion of domestic violence. Walden was arrested Friday in Brown County on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend at their apartment near Green Bay. County District Attorney John Zakowski said Walden’s girlfriend ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Supporters of six men who were convicted in a grisly 1992 Green Bay killing are continuing their efforts to get the convictions overturned, arguing that the men were victims of flawed investigation and prosecution. About 60 people marched Friday around the Brown County courthouse, chanting that they wanted “truth and justice now.” The six men ...

DE PERE, Wis. (AP) — An investigation has cleared De Pere police officers who shot and killed a man who threatened them with a gun. Brown County District Attorney John Zakowski said the officers repeatedly ordered Daniel LeCleir to drop his gun before fatally shooting him outside his town house on March 1. Officers had gone to LeCleir’s town house ...