Chicken-Fried News

Hey kids, here’s a tip about greeting police officers: Always have your pants on. Greg Fagan of Ardmore found out what happens when you forget to put on the bottom half of your clothing. It leads police to search in areas you probably don’t want them looking. According to a story in The Daily Ardmoreite, […]

Finally, some common sense coming out of the Oklahoma Legislature. According to a small story in the Tulsa World recently, a Senate committee voted to advance a measure dealing with slowpokes. Specifically, drivers who hang out in the left lane and can’t even drive the speed limit on a four-lane highway. Did you hear that? […]

From one silent killer to another. Loyal CFN readers will remember that last week we brought you the story of the spider found shopping for organic produce at a Tulsa Whole Foods Market. Tulsa University’s Terry Childs, director of animal facilities, took the spider into custody and announced it a Brazilian Wandering Spider, a merciless […]

Checotah’s Carrie Underwood scored yet another Grammy award in February, but her new ‘do isn’t exactly having fans singing her praises. The “American Idol” season four winner returned to the show March 18 to sing a duet with Randy Travis. That guy looked the same he has for years, but the usually long-haired Underwood sported […]

‘Scuse us while we turn down the snark on this week’s final CFN: John Hope Franklin’s memories of Oklahoma are some of the worst any man could imagine. And yet, he is considered one the state’s greatest treasures. Born in 1915 in the tiny town of Rentiesville, south of Muskogee, Franklin’s early life in Oklahoma […]

When friends get together after school, they watch TV, text, gossip about boys and, you know, other stuff. Like group sex parties, for example, which are apparently spreading syphilis among teens in Central Oklahoma. At least that’s what state health officials told The Oklahoman recently. Treponema pallidum, the bacteria responsible for this little dandy, causes […]

It has been pointed out more than once that Oklahoma didn’t show much love for Barack Obama during the presidential election. Well, the prez is returning the favor. Obama is a huge basketball fan and considers himself an expert in the field. He filled out an NCAA basketball tournament bracket sheet for ESPN and picked […]

The scariest thing to happen to bananas since Carmen Miranda occurred in Tulsa last week. According to a report by News9.com, a Brazilian Wandering Spider was found, well, wandering around the produce section of a Whole Foods Market. And he wasn’t shopping for organic grub, either. The arachnid made its way to the grocery store […]

It was probably another “D’oh!” moment for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs recently when it raided a house in Mustang. According to a story in The Oklahoman, the bureau went to the home of Glenn and Terry Speck with a warrant for their nephew, Cory Davis. After hearing a rapping on the […]

And here comes Oklahoma, once again leading the pack in (anti) science. State Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, recently introduced legislation to ban the use of embryonic stem cells in research, according to a March 17 article from Reuters. Reynolds’ House Bill 1326 would make it illegal for any business in Oklahoma to conduct research […]