The above pictures of former Creek County, Oklahoma District Judge Donald D. Thompson document his journey from the bench to being an accused criminal, to becoming a convicted felon and lastly to becoming an inmate in the Oklahoma prison system. On the left is his official picture, while still a judge. The second is Thompson’s [...]
Oklahoma’s Grand River Dam Authority is no stranger to controversy nor is its Chief Executive Officer, former state senator Kevin Easley. However it appears that even by GRDA’s freewheeling standards the latest scandal is a bit much. In January it was reported that GRDA was raising its rates for electricity by 6.95 percent. Easley attributed [...]
On Tuesday night, January 3, 2006 Dr. Lonnie Wayne Latham, 59, senior pastor at South Tulsa Baptist Church and one of four Southern Baptist Convention executive committee members from Oklahoma, was arrested and booked into Oklahoma County Jail on a misdemeanor charge of offering to engage in an act of lewdness with a male undercover [...]
A Best of Bubbaworld, Blast From the Past… Original publish date: 8/09/2005 ***** On June 17, 2005 Steve Brown, 37, of Sapulpa, OK, who reportedly drives around town in a camouflaged van topped with a yellow light bar, received a speeding ticket for driving 51 mph in a 35-mph zone and was cited into Sapulpa [...]
A Best of Bubbaworld, Blast From the Past… Original publish date: 8/18/2004 ***** It isn’t every day that a 5 foot, 5 inch tall woman, weighing 125 pounds and wearing nothing but a blue swimsuit and handcuffs gets the better of a deputy sheriff. Let alone two deputies, making them look like rejects from the [...]
A Best of Bubbaworld, Blast From the Past… Original publish date: 8/10/2004 ***** August 4, 2004 was a very bad day for Drew Patterson, age 27, of Bristow, Oklahoma. On that day a defendant in a criminal case being heard in Creek County District Court ran down the center isle of the courtroom and right [...]
