Chicken-Fried News

Folks down in Norman took great pride when Money magazine came out with its list of the 100 best places to live in America and the suburb south of OKC received a high ranking of No. 6. The ranking made great news for the home of the University of Oklahoma and put the town in […]

If Chicken-Fried News readers were interested in the semiautomatic rifle that was going to be given away at a local church’s weekend youth conference, you’re out of luck. Windsor Hills Baptist Church hoped the weapon would encourage attendance at the event slated for last week, but gutted the giveaway when an event organizer couldn’t attend, […]

Boy, you never run out of things to report with Brent Rinehart in office. That’s why we at CFN are secretly sorry he’s facing charges that could chuck him outta there like four-day-old fish. Rinehart’s latest antic is the circulation of a re-election brochure ” and we’re using that term loosely ” compelling voters to […]

In this summer movie season of iron men and crystal skulls, CFN wonders if there might be something cinematically “¦ well, different. We envision, oh, Oklahoma’s own Toby Keith busting through a door, brandishing a gun all tough-guy-like. Country “comedian” Rodney Carrington wearing one of those idiotic hats like Randy Quaid in “Christmas Vacation.” A […]

There’s early voting by absentee, there’s early voting Chicago-style and now there may be early voting Norman-style. One is perfectly legal, one may never be known as legal or not, and one has been deemed a violation by a former government attorney. The latter is not Chicago-style. According to a story in The Norman Transcript, […]

“But soft, what light through yon window breaks?” “William Shakespeare It is Gassaway, that’s who ” breaking “¦ into acting. Forgive us our poetic license, but we at Chicken-Fried News are inspired by the recent news that the flamboyant (former) Oklahoma City attorney Mike Gassaway has taken up acting. Yep, according to a Web site […]

While it’s every boy’s dream to have sex as early as he can in life, it’s doom for a mini Madagascar species of chameleon. As reported in New Scientist, Kris Karsten and his Oklahoma State University comrades spent four years following tagged F. labordi lizards. Here’s the summary: They hatch, they have sex about seven […]

A legal point: If a local attorney were so intemperate as to allegedly bite the breast of a woman who did not want that, would such behavior constitute sexual battery? Yep, at least to the arresting officer ” and this one is not for moot court. According to a police report, Dan Murdock, who is […]

A wealthy Oklahoma energy magnate, heavily involved in the famous ad campaign against 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry, apparently has seen the light and is staying away from attack groups. Oklahoma City resident and Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon was one of the financial backers of what was then called the Swift Boat Veterans […]

Sometimes here at CFN, we’re tempted to just say, “Only in Oklahoma.” Take, for instance, the case of Stillwater resident Teresa McColley. A year ago May, her dog was hit and she decided it was high time to slow traffic in the southwest Stillwater area in which she lives. Did she go to city hall? […]