How bad is the Bryan County Jail, in Durant, Oklahoma? So bad that the FBI has investigated it, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has investigated it, the U.S. Marshal’s Service has investigated it, the state Health Department has investigated and levied fines against it and the state of Oklahoma is considering ordering it closed. [...]
Yesterday the Oklahoma City Council agreed to a $4 million dollar settlement with Jeffrey Todd Pierce, an innocent man, who was convicted of rape and imprisoned for 15 years. His false conviction was in part based upon the false testimony of fired Oklahoma City police chemist Joyce Gilchrist.
Editor’s Note: At Bubbaworld we have covered some of the weirdest of the weird of, in and about Oklahoma. But this story shocked even us. Meet Da’ Boyz From top left to bottom right, Neil Havens Rodreick II, age 29, Brian J. Nellis, age 34, Robert James Snow, age 43 and ‘Grandpa’ Lonnie Stiffler, age 61. Rodreick [...]
As much of eastern Oklahoma struggles to break the grip of a crippling ice storm, many thousands are without electricity and the many things we all take for granted and which are dependent upon electricity to function. Several eastern Oklahoma towns are currently without water owing to the lack of electricity to operate pumps, treatment [...]
Preliminary Hearings For: Barthelme, Peek and Parks Preliminary hearings for those accused in the Grady County Gambling Raid case were set for January 4th and 5th. At a preliminary hearing, the state must present enough evidence to show probable cause that a crime was committed and that the defendants probably committed that crime. If the [...]
On the evening of January 9, 2007, 38-year old Corey Duane Hamilton died in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was executed for the August 17, 1992 massacre of four young people; Joseph Gooch, Theodore Kindley, Steven Williams and Senaida Lara, during a robbery at the Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken Restaurant on South Sheridan [...]
