Chicken-Fried News

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” […]

Everyone knows about Hells Angels, the notorious biker gang noted for cruising Harley-Davidsons since the Sixties. California is known for its history with the Angels, with Oklahoma barely a blip on the gang’s radar screen. But the town of Bartlesville lit up the sonar of the Angels, and law enforcement, when a member of a […]

From the looks of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe’s current campaign commercials, which end with the Oklahoma Republican walking in slow motion toward the camera, one might think the senior senator is the second coming of Jesus Christ. Well, the venerable Esquire magazine ain’t kneeling down at that one. In its annual “Esquire Endorses America” feature, […]

It’s not every day that a 12-foot albino Burmese Python goes missing, and then is returned. Twice. That’s just what happened to just such a snake named “Merlin,” according to reports. Merlin’s tale has many twists, turns and convolutions, and in keeping with his namesake, has quite a disappearing act. And though he was a […]

The Oklahoma state Legislature is finally looking into something we here at Chicken-Fried News have long considered a matter of supreme importance: all-terrain vehicles on the roads. Yes, friends, the time has finally come that ATV and Toyota Hilux may share the pavement. It brings a tear to our dusty, curmudgeonly eyes. Citing fuel prices […]

It appears that once a police chief, not always a role model. According to a story in the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, former Dewey Police Chief Lester Leon Rogers, 58, was found guilty of obstructing an officer and speeding after a court hearing on Sept. 8. According to the story, Rogers was discovered traveling in excess of […]

Republican presidential candidate John McCain may have put a foot-long where his mouth is ” make that a foot-long from Sonic. Actually, according to a recent story in the Philadelphia Bulletin, which was following a Des Moines, Iowa, speech by McCain, the candidate used the Oklahoma fast-food corporation as an example of the economic hit […]

“This is the latest example of what I referred to in a speech recently as ‘environmental thuggery.’ “¦ The last thing our economy needs is a patchwork of regulatory compliance regimes in addition to the federal standard that would be even more costly for automobile manufacturers. Put simply, this will mean job losses.” “Sen. James […]

A teenage panty bandit, sentenced last week in district court, will spend 60 days in jail and complete an Oklahoma Department of Corrections-approved fetish control program. The final ruling came Oct. 1, Jeremy J. Dula’s second court appearance on charges following a 2007 investigation by the Ardmore Police Department, according to a story published in […]

There’s plenty of blame to go around in this world. Milli Vanilli blamed it on the rain. Michael Caine blamed it on Rio. Now Indiana University is blaming it on Kelvin Sampson. Responding to NCAA allegations on Sept. 29, the school played the blame game with former coach Kelvin Sampson and his assistants for “any […]