Chicken-Fried News

This just in: The media should take a chill pill and not worry about extinction. Believe it or not, all news begins with a living and breathing journalist, according to Jim Lehrer. The PBS anchor recently received the inaugural Gaylord Prize given by the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. “In […]

So what went amiss on that lonely Louisiana sandbar the fateful night that killed Tulsa woman Cynthia Lynch? According to the several reports, Lynch, 43, traveled by bus to Slidell, La., after seeking to join a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan there, called the Sons of Dixie Knights. There, the group transported her to […]

If the city’s beloved Bricktown area had its own mayor, it would have been Jim Brewer. Considered the father, architect and thrust behind one of the greatest renaissances Oklahoma City has ever witnessed, it was only fitting that an American flag stood at half-staff last week upon the news of his death. Brewer made his […]

Does everyone remember that iconic T-rex scene in the beginning of the 1993 blockbuster “Jurassic Park” ” you know the one, where the car has stopped by the empty T-rex enclosure and all is silent, too silent? But then, just barely audible, you hear a low, reverberating thump “¦ then another one. The camera pans […]

Obama wins! Obama wins! But you might not know it if you lived in Sapulpa. The town’s newspaper, The Sapulpa Herald, failed to mention the news of Barack Obama’s historic Nov. 4 election in the following day’s edition. And that has many of the city’s black residents as angry as Joe the Plumber facing a […]

After an intense, two-month investigation, Altus police, along with the Jackson County Sheriff’s office and the District Attorney’s Drug Task Force, confiscated some equipment that allegedly was used illegally. What was this unspeakable incident? Well, a local bingo hall in Altus was raided, according to KSWO-TV in Lawton. Grannies and pepaws everywhere are on alert […]

Oklahoma State University applauded last month’s gift from alum T. Boone Pickens. After all, the billionaire oilman donated another $63 million for completing football stadium renovations after a previous gift sharply dropped while invested in Pickens’ own hedge fund, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy newspaper. Pickens bet his hindquarters that Oklahoma State University would […]

The die-hard Sonics fans (those folks from Seattle that say we stole their Thunder, er, SuperSonics) are still having a hard time letting go. A Nov. 6 posting on the Supersonics Soul blog, “The Sonics blog for the Sonics people” was ominously titled “Not Very Thunderful.” Uh-oh. We’re a bit afraid to keep reading. It […]

There was so much hot air inside the Muskogee High School gymnasium that even the yappers at the state Capitol would be impressed. Brian Jackson, a 44-year-old motivational speaker, attempted to break a couple of world records using his mouth. The first was to blow up a weather balloon much longer than his frame, and […]

Steven B. Riggle must have really loved his mailman job. The 43-year-old Riggle, of Ada, pled guilty last week to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of mail, according to a story in the Ada Evening News. Riggle allegedly kept mountains of letters in his home instead of making the deliveries. Sheldon J. Sperling, U.S. attorney […]