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Midwest City, OK police officer Larry Schones had to catch the school bus Friday morning.

Not that Officer Schones was going back to school.

He did however catch the school bus carrying about 30 students to Star Spencer High School in Oklahoma City and driven by this man, Anthony Dewitt Atchison, 25.

When Officer Schones caught the school bus driven by Atchison he arrested the bus driver on complaints of reckless driving, speeding and driving with a suspended license.

Allegedly the school bus was going 49 mph in a 25 mph zone, which sounds likely as Atchison reportedly also had an outstanding warrant for failure to pay a previous speeding ticket.

According to a school system spokesperson, the district checks the status of driver’s licenses several times a year, and Atchison’s was “current”.

How a check by the school system indicated Atchison’s license was “current” when a check by the arresting police officer indicated it had been “suspended” raises enough red flags to decorate a school bus.

Also, the school system might want from time to time check to determine if there are any outstanding arrest warrants for its employees. In the least, the employment status of any employee with an outstanding warrant should be reviewed.

And they might even check with the various jails in the area to see if any of their bus drivers are locked up, like Mr. Atchison who following his arrest was being held in the Midwest City jail in lieu of $1,576 bail…

The Grady County Gambling Raid case came to a logical conclusion Friday when former Grady County Sheriff Kieran McMullen, his wife Helen McMullen and two former deputies Delmer Barthelme and Robert Cacy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of willful neglect of duty for allowing illegal gambling at the Chickasha Elks Lodge.

The plea deal between the four former law officers and District Attorney Brett Burns calls for a six-month deferred sentence and requires each of them to surrender their law enforcement certifications for a period of at least five years, pay a $200 fine and court costs.

In addition, Kieran McMullen was required to resign as Sheriff of Grady County, which he did the day before entering the guilty plea.

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Congratulations to the Oklahoma Supreme Court which finally got around to disbarring former Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson.

His “dishonor”, Judge Thompson achieved world-wide fame as The Masturbating Judge who a jury found guilty of indecent exposure on allegations that he sat through trials, including murder cases, merrily pumping away on his penis pump, shaving his testicles and masturbating.

In late June 2006 jurors found Thompson guilty of these criminal acts, acts which took place during both murder trials and a civil case. In the most shocking instance jurors found that Thompson had used a penis pump during the tear-filled testimony of a man whose grandchild had been murdered.

Thompson was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $40,000 for his crimes. Crimes which he never admitted or for which he has not to this day accepted responsibility.

What is so surprising is that it took so long for the Oklahoma Supreme Court to decide that disbarment was justified in Thompson’s case.

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With the Tulsa State Fair set to start tomorrow some might be looking forward to seeing the “big cats” of Great Cat Adventures, a company that displays leopards, tigers and other large cats at fairs all over the country.

If so, they are in for a disappointment as Tulsa State Fair officials have canceled the $11,000 contract with the company, supposedly in part because of a flurry of complaints.

This according to Mark Andrus, interim president and CEO of Expo Square, who inherited the job when Tulsa County Commissioners tossed Rick Bjorklund under the bus back in July.

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And it was a fiasco.

On Monday morning the shiny new BOK Center hosted the Get Motivated Seminar featuring among its speakers General Colin Powell, Zig Ziglar, and Joe Montana.

In some media reports the attendance was reported at 16,000 while in others it was reported as 18,000.

In any case it was way too many if you were trying to get to work or conduct business in downtown Tulsa.

How bad was it?

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Sally Bell has handed Tulsa County Commissioner Randi Miller an old fashion butt kickin’ in the Tulsa County District 2 County Commission Republican primary.

That Bell defeated Miller is no surprise although the margin of victory for Bell was pleasantly surprising.

Sally Bell received 81.4% of the vote to Miller’s 18.6%, leaving no doubt as to how displeased the voters of Tulsa County District 2 are with the scandal tainted Miller.

That Randi Miller brought about her own defeat with scandal after scandal is without question.

That Randi Miller was defeated by a member of the family that owned and operated Bell’s Amusement Park for 50 plus years is not only justice, it is Karma.

And Karma is something that Randi Miller simply does not understand…

Congratulations Sally Bell…