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<p>GREEN BAY - The Green Bay School Board has approved a large number of retirement requests from teachers and administrators.</p> <p>With the future of the state budget uncertain, 140 teachers and 15 administrators asked to join the emeritus program. That works out to about 1 out of every 12 teachers in the district.</p>

GREEN BAY - Charles Woodson has become the latest Green Bay Packer to lend his support to state union employees. The cornerback said Sunday he's honored to stand with working families of Wisconsin and organized labor. Tens of thousands of people have been protesting a measure by Republican Gov. Scott Walker that would end collective bargaining rights for nearly all public employees. Woodson says hardworking people including teachers and nurses are under ``an unprecedented attack'' to take away their basic rights. He says as a member of the NFL Players Association he's proud to stand with them. He joins seven...

Green Bay Packers fans turned out in droves to welcome their Super Bowl championship football team back to town on Monday. Fans lined the city streets all along the Packers’ route from Austin-Straubel Airport back to Lambeau Field after the team’s plane landed around 1:45 p.m. The players and coaches traveled in a caravan of Green Bay city buses, and on some streets fans were lined up as much as five or six people deep, on both sides. The crowds grew considerably larger the closer the team got to Lambeau. Upon arriving at the stadium, thousands of fans were waiting...