Chicken-Fried News

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 […]

Getting tired of the racial comments about Barack Obama? At the state Capitol, it’s already no joke, according to a recent story in The Associated Press. According to the story, Republican Rep. Doug Cox’s legislative assistant, Jane Mitchell, was accused of distributing an e-mail about Obama that prompted Democrat Rep. Mike Shelton to complain that […]

Will Rogers Theater was home to an amazing show of talent recently as Oklahoma City’s Rotary Club 29 took to the stage in their second annual “Rotary Idol” competition, according to a story in OKC Friday. The club, which is one of the largest in the world, obviously had a pretty big talent pool to […]

When the going gets tough, independent candidate Jack Cherry goes YouTube. Cherry, 45, is running for Oklahoma House District 93, which, according to his video, encompasses a pretty big swath of south-side Oklahoma City and has lots of warehouses, apartments, strip malls, car washes, his grandmother’s former hair salon and his home of 10 years. […]

Earlier in the election cycle, Oklahoma Gazette asked the question “Can Rice stick?” in a cover story that explored how the freshman Oklahoma legislator hoped to unseat Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. Meanwhile, “The making of a Mountain” cover story showed how Inhofe’s political career has been a succession of soaring peaks and desolate valleys. Inhofe, […]

KBuck the miniature horse has a new view of the world. The pint-sized pony, born June 1 at Lawton’s Lil Chums Miniature Horse Farm, lost an eye shortly after his birth, according to a story by The Associated Press. Kelsey Chumbley, KBuck’s 12-year-old owner, suspected his nag of a mother inflicted the damage with a […]

Forget the damp cave. When Batman needs to get out of Gotham, he swoops down to Bartlesville. “The Dark Knight” star Christian Bale was spotted Oct. 17 inside a Starbucks in the northeastern Oklahoma town of about 35,000, a store manger told The Associated Press. Bale, 34, ordered a grande chai latte and told a […]

The Galapagos Islands are routinely defined by gorgeous geography and diversity of species. The collection of islands, now a province of Ecuador, are also famously known as the impetus of the evolution theory brought forth by Charles Darwin. This tranquil setting has brought on controversy for Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas, R-Cheyenne. The long-term representative calls […]

One bright spot in the recent national campaign has been the return of an old Chicken-Fried News favorite for quote fodder ” our own former Gov. Frank Keating. As if life just couldn’t get any better for the CFN crew, Frankie recently took to the airwaves on the radio show of former “Saturday Night Live” […]

Jesus was just all right with the Doobie Brothers, but the possible public funding of a Jesus Christ statue created some controversy for the conservative city of Edmond, according to The Associated Press. In the beginning (actually, in September), the Edmond Visual Arts Commission voted 6-2, with one abstention, to approve bringing the likeness of […]