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What creatures might one never spot but sound like a million smoke detectors with their batteries running out? That would be the “Cajun chorus frog,” a newly discovered species native to eastern Oklahoma.   Former Oklahoma Gazette intern Althea Peterson reported the “ribbiting” story in the Tulsa World (she done us proud!).   Its discovery […]

We at CFN love positive feedback. Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than sincere appreciation from the community.   CFN is all about giving. In that spirit, we’d like to share a recent CFN letter from Edmond resident Katy Jones. The Jan. 16 CFN she references was about John Cleese, a member of […]

There’s hardly anything funnier than when elected officials get caught acting like the laws they write don’t apply to them. And with our lawmakers, the funny bone is constantly tickled.   Members of the state House of Representatives shared a philosophy more akin to Leona Helmsley than your friendly neighborhood CPA when they failed to […]

According to a recent story in The Oklahoman, a female jailer just got nabbed for doin’ the “wild thing” with an inmate in her custody.   The story states that a 20-year-old former Okfuskee County jailer, Billie Lee Pelley, faces a “forcible sodomy” charge after the county jail’s in-house security cam caught her performing oral […]

A strange sight took place in the Crown Heights neighborhood during the morning hours on a recent Thursday.   One of Crown Heights’ more prominent residents is Democratic Party activist Mike Turpen and his wife, Susan. Along with being a good Democrat, Mike Turpen served the state as attorney general in the Eighties and ran […]

Every day, thousands upon thousands of times over, a line gets snagged on an underwater obstruction. It’s just not every day that the obstruction turns out to be a stretch limo. And a Hummer limo at that.   That’s what happened to Bob Faulker at Lake Texoma recently, according to a report by area station […]

Taking a break from smiling, waving and luring Internet child predators to a dank cell, Oklahoma’s reigning Miss America Lauren Nelson just earned a loyal grade-school fan base by appearing on the Jan. 17 broadcast of Fox’s hit game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?”   Hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, the show usually […]

John Cleese, a member of the famous “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” is getting divorced. Why should this be of interest to Chicken-Fried News readers? Just keep reading.   One of the founding members of Monty Python, Cleese might be the most famous British comedian ever. The late Sixties and early Seventies British television show was […]