Dane County has agreed to pay $118,000 to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and three other media outlets to settle a legal battle over records in the case of a murdered University of Wisconsin-Madison student.
The amount owed took more than a year to determine and will cover attorney fees for the outlets, which sought the release of 911 tapes and other records in the case of Brittany Zimmermann, 21. A Dane County judge ruled last year in favor of the media groups in their suit, and most of the records were released.