Tag: law

  • DB Law, Broncos agree to terms (AP)

    Defensive back Ty Law has agreed to terms on a deal with the Denver Broncos. Kevin Poston, Law's agent, confirmed the news Friday in an e-mail to The Associated Press. The agreement came after Denver's media availability and a Broncos spokesman said the team had no comment. Law is expected to sign the deal Saturday, pending the passing of his physical.

  • Black Pastor’s Slaying Sparks Warning

    ANADARKO, Okla. ? Authorities warned pastors in a town where a preacher was brutally killed inside her own church that they should take precautions at their buildings, even as police refused to say exactly what happened.

    District Attorney Bret Burns, who described the killing as “horrific,” held a closed-door session with about two dozen pastors, along with members of law enforcement. Several pastors who were there said authorities did not discuss any facts of the case.

  • Pioneering Civil Rights Lawyer Dies

    ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Pioneering civil rights lawyer Margaret Bush Wilson, a former national chair of the NAACP, died this week. She was 90.

    She died Tuesday of multiple organ failure, her son, Robert E. Wilson III, said.

    Wilson, whose life passion was being a lawyer, had continued practicing law until June. She was the second black woman to pass the Missouri Bar after graduating from the now-defunct Lincoln University School of Law, a “separate but equal” institution that had been created for blacks in Missouri.