Less than a week after a major scandal over unsafe rides hit Big Splash Water Park there comes another scandal. A scandal that is causing a lot of red faces for Tulsa County commissioners, Tulsa Expo Square management and of course Big Splash management. It seems that Big Splash Water Park is late on paying [...]
Published: April 25, 2008 Last Updated: June 30. 2008 Tulsa District Judge Jesse Harris has been arrested on two felony counts of indecent exposure on allegations that he exposed himself to his ex-girlfriend and her friend in a parking lot at an east Tulsa hotel between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on March 9. Jail [...]
Loretta Murphy, the “owner” of Big Splash Water Park in Tulsa on Monday agreed to an interview with KOTV to present her “side” of the story regarding the recent shut down for safety reasons of water slides at Big Splash. Of the failure to replace rotten support beams discovered by state inspectors in December and [...]
The southeast corner of the Tulsa Fairgrounds is dominated by the big tower that supports the Flumes and the Silver Bullet, the two tallest water slides in Big Splash Water Park. According to Oklahoma State Department of Labor which inspects water parks, when its inspectors examined Big Splash during a “dry inspection” last December, the [...]
Vicki Leigh Chiles has been convicted of the first-degree murder of two-year-old Joshua Minton on May 17, 2007. After deliberating for about 3-1/2 hours, an eight-woman, four-man Tulsa County jury found Chiles guilty as charged and recommended a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Chiles did not testify in her own [...]
A Bubbaworld Opinion/Editorial Take a group of kids, say ages 11 through 19 or so, all with disciplinary issues and some with juvenile convictions for violent crimes that require them to wear GPS ankle bracelets to track their movements and put this group of kids together in a school that is grossly understaffed, underfunded and [...]
