Archive for the 'Delaware County' Category

Build It – They Will Come

It seems that the folks in Delaware County have a “field of dreams” situation going on. Back in 1997 the voters of Delaware County approved a half-cent increase in the sales tax to fund a new jail. Their new jail costing $3.8 million, was designed to hold 61 prisoners and opened for business in year [...]

A Horror Story Redux

A horror story redux is how best to describe what has happened to a 14-year-old Delaware County girl. On November 7th, the girl reportedly had a seizure at school in Gove, OK and was taken to Integris Grove General Hospital. There the girl and her foster mom were informed that the girl was approximately 11 [...]

Ex-Sheriff Lenden Woodruff Shot – Wife Charged

Publication Date: 6/26/07 Last Update: 7/06/07 Candyce (Candy) Woodruff, wife of former Delaware County Sheriff Lenden Woodruff is currently lodged in the Delaware County jail, held on $250,000 bond on a charge of shooting with intent to kill. She is accused of twice shooting her husband on Sunday June 17th, 2007. Earlier in that day, [...]

The Case of the Missing Cases

While there are many strange happenings in Delaware County, Oklahoma, few if any are more strange that what we here at Bubbaworld refer to as “The Case of the Missing Cases”. While that might sound like a title from an old “Perry Mason” show from a by-gone era of television, reality in Delaware County is [...]

Evelyn’s House of Evil

April 6, 2004 is a day most folks in the Delaware County town of Kansas, Oklahoma had rather forget. That was the day police raided Evelyn’s Daycare Center, and things would never be the same again. The scandal came to the attention of police when two young girls, ages 7 and 9, revealed that they [...]

Deputies Left Flat Footed and Red Faced

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 [...]