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An 8-year-old ClevelandElementary School student won the top prize among third-graders in a short-story contest sponsored by PBS.   According to a press release, for the “Reading Rainbow Young Writers Contest,” Hannah Carlson entered her tale about “a pizza family living at CiCi’s Pizza. “¦ Her story features five family members representing different slices of […]

A woman recently nabbed on “America’s Most Wanted,” allegedly implicated in local burglaries, was revealed in a personals ad to have love on her mind while spending time in the hoosegow, according to the “AMW” Web site.   Police arrested the woman, identified as Lizzette Garvin, 38, in Indianapolis last week, less than 24 hours […]

Forget the starving children in Africa, folks. Rick Schroeder needs your money.   The former child star turned “NYPD Blue” vet wants to direct and star in a motion picture based on the life of Oklahoma oil man E.W. Marland, whose scandalous marriage to his adopted daughter Lydie served as a cover story in the […]

People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks, but here at Chicken-Fried News we like to pitch irony. In the height of centennial celebrations, a Tulsa woman bought a postcard that suggests we’ve all been taught the wrong version of Oklahoma history.   Forget Oklahoma City ” or even Guthrie “Yvonna Coulter discovered her […]

Quick! What’s the one thing missing that Oklahoma needs? You said “major pro sports team,” didn’t you? Well, the state is thinking more along the lines of “deadly disease research lab.”   Oklahoma is one of a dozen of these United States vying to play host for a lab brimming with lethal viruses, from anthrax […]

Few conspiracy theorists these days ever got the notoriety or relevance of Oklahoma bombing writer J.D. Cash from McCurtainCounty. Cash, 55, died last week from liver disease and pneumonia in a Tulsa hospital, ending a pretty dang interesting second career.   Cash’s first career, that of a mortgage banker, ended when he took to a […]

Who says this still isn’t the wild, wild West? When a man allegedly attempted to rob a Purcell liquor store recently, what did the owner do?   He threw back the F-bomb “¦ and then some.   Butch’s Cork & Bottle owner Butch Kluth was minding his business on a late afternoon in the small […]

Oklahoma City police are on the lookout for two shoplifters who recently exited the Family Dollar at 3907 N. MacArthur, leaving some almost absconded items “¦ and one well-aimed punch to the face of a pregnant woman in their wake.   As reported on KWTV Channel 9, surveillance tape shows a man and woman trying […]