Archive for August, 2009

Getting Strange

To some it may appear to be getting strange when Sequoyah County Commissioner Michael D. “Mike” Huff, 60, (pictured above) pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges in Arkansas and was sentenced to 10 days in the Sebastian County Detention Center and ordered to pay $490 in fines and court costs.
Usually when County Commissioners from Oklahoma [...]

An Old Fashion Thrown Down

On a hot August night, dozens of Tulsa’s finest were called to Big Splash Water Park after hundreds of youths reportedly brawled inside the park and on its parking lot.
Tulsa Police officers were called in from all over the city to help control the crowd which cops estimated at 3,500.
Prior to the arrival of the [...]

It Must Be The Heat

It has been a few years, well only three years, since some Tulsans suffered a heat induced outbreak of lunacy which resulted in the last lame-brain proposal to “do something”.
Guess what?
Here we go again…
Back during the summer of 2006, in the midst of a heat wave, a project called “The Channels” was proposed. The [...]

Ex-Sheriff – Deal Or No Deal

On January 12, 2009 former Woodward County Sheriff Leslie Morton, shown above, appeared in Woodward County District Court for a preliminary hearing on 9 counts of embezzlement. It was alleged that Morton, while sheriff, used his county-issued vehicle and fuel card for personal use.
At that time, Morton entered a no contest plea to five [...]