Tulsa Councilor Wants Speed Trap takes a look at a really stupid proposal by Tulsa City Councilor John Eagleton to hire a group of new police officers and send them out to do nothing but write traffic tickets in what can only be considered a plan to turn Tulsa in Oklahoma’s biggest ‘speed trap town’.
The legal battle arising from the raid on the Chickasha, OK Elks Club is polarizing both the city of Chickasha and Grady County, with most government officials siding with the Elks Lodge and Sheriff McMullen against DA Bret Burns. The legal wrangling between District Attorney Bret Burns and Grady County Sheriff Kieran McMullen took a [...]
The Grady County gambling scandal is the result of a raid on the Chickasha Elks Lodge on September 6, 2006 by agents of the state Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission (ABLE) and Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers. The raid was conducted at the behest of newly appointed District Attorney Bret Burns. The raid culminated a year [...]
August 14, 2005 was a significant day for the Healdton, Oklahoma Police Department. A day that leaves some chuckling while leaving others wondering how can anyone be so dumb. Little did Healdton Police Officers Rick Clayton and Jared Trotts suspect that destiny awaited them as they responded to a call pertaining to shots fired in [...]
A Bubbaworld Editorial The voters in Choctaw, McCurtain and Pushmataha Counties in Oklahoma have spoken and what they said at the August 22, 2006 run-off election for the office of District Attorney was “Goodbye Virginia Sanders”. The final results for the District 17 run-off election indicate that Laura Ross Wallis received 68.83% of the vote [...]
Publication Date: 3/17/2006 Last Update: 3/17/2006 February 22, 2006 started off normal enough for Julie Owens and her sons Steven, age 7, and Brian, age 8. The boys are first and second graders at the Talihina Elementary School in Talihina, Oklahoma, which bills itself as “Oklahoma’s Last Frontier”. It was only after the boys were [...]
