Although it was Valentine’s Day, 2006 Linda Long had other things on her mind as she stood anxiously watching as smoke from a raging wildfire drifted across Brock Road, near Lone Grove, Oklahoma. She was mentally preparing herself to defend her home from the fire should the need arise. She was also watching for Wyatt, [...]
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 [...]
Terror In Talihina – Part 1 details the shocking events which occurred in Talihina, Oklahoma on February 22, 2006. It is the story of Julie Owens and her sons Steven, age 7, and Brian, age 8 and what happened to the boys at the hands of Talihina Elementary School Principal Angela Weaver, Talihina Police Chief [...]
Publication date: 5/27/01 Last Update: 8/12/02 In what has to be one of the most fascinating cases to come before the federal courts in a long time, the parents of a Tulsa teenager are suing Tulsa Union Schools as well as several school administrators and employees accusing them of violating her civil rights when they [...]
(Originally published in early December, 1999 as the fiasco was unfolding) There are few facets of public education more frustrating to the ‘Average Okie’ than the teaching of evolution in the public schools. For years the ‘Fundies’ have been attempting various methods to mandate the teaching of ‘Creationism’, either in addition to or in lieu [...]
