Is “the dog shot me” the adult version of “my dog ate my homework”? A Grant County woman was a passenger in a vehicle while it was stopped at the train tracks in Enid when a yellow lab puppy named Molly got startled by the passing train and jumped from the backseat onto the vehicle’s […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Fuzzy Math
We here at Chicken-Fried News would calculate that Oklahomans are as good at math as just about anybody. Unfortunately, that might be because, as Oklahomans, our math scores fall below the national average, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, so we have to assume our calculations might be a little faulty. Maybe […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Secretive Sooners
Add “Black Hole” to the list of names people call the University of Oklahoma (OU) board of regents — right next to “corrupt,” “failures” and probably a less appropriate type of hole. Freedom of Information (FOI) Oklahoma presents the Black Hole award to an organization or individual “that has most thwarted the free flow of […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Nobamacare
State Question 802 would allow voters to decide whether Oklahoma will finally accept the Medicaid expansion authorized by the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, but in order to get it on the ballot in 2020, organizers have until 5 p.m. Oct. 28 to collect 177,958 signatures from registered Oklahoma voters. If a number close to […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Dr. Roboto
A new high-tech way to go to the dentist is here, and it will either terrify you or encourage you to finally visit your dentist. Oral Surgery Specialists of Oklahoma has one of the country’s first “robotic dentists” for dental implant surgery. “[Yomi Robotic Dental System] delivers critical insight on patient anatomy to aid with […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Bittersweet release
The sweet taste of freedom quickly soured like an unripe cherry for an Oklahoma City man last week after he led police on a high-speed chase just hours after being released from prison. According to KFOR, Jonathan Tecumseh fled a routine traffic stop around SE 29th Street, taking the vehicle north on Interstate 35, and […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Church in state
Fresh off his, uh, “win” in the historic opioid trial, Oklahoma attorney general Mike Hunter is now leading a fight against the Montana Supreme Court. Along with a coalition of state attorney generals and governors from 18 other states, Hunter wants U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Montana Supreme Court decision that required the state […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Mullet over
When a reporter asked a flippant question about recently deceased oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens during a teleconference interview last month, Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy wasn’t having it. “Don’t hurt the real journalism world,” Gundy said. “It’s jackasses like you that cause problems, OK? They shouldn’t even let you call in.” Gundy’s response […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Free the nipple
A ruling out of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has set a precedent that is sure to result in a lot of pearl-grabbing while screaming, “Won’t somebody please think of the children.” It’s now legal for women to go topless in Oklahoma, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico — the states […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Coffin dwelling
To most introverts, spending 30 hours alone with no connection to the outside world might sound like a dream come true — especially if you get paid $600 once it’s all said and done. But what if you had to do that in a “slightly used,” claustrophobic Frontier City coffin? We’re not sure what “slightly […]