Chicken-Fried News

Rising gas prices are taking their toll. CFN’s unpaid intern, Bucky, is so desperate, he’s donating plasma for cash to fill up his moped with personalized racing flames. If you’re looking for a culprit to blame for the high cost o’ fuel, Vice President Dick Cheney has the answer: Democrats. The Veep said Dems are […]

The life of an award-winning Oklahoma blues legend will be celebrated by fans, friends and music lovers Saturday in eastern Oklahoma. D.C. Minner, who died May 6 at age 73, was an accomplished musician who played bass alongside Freddie King, Eddie Floyd, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, and was well-known for his Dusk ‘Til Dawn […]

Three young men from the tiny town of Wilson will either go down as heroes of a worthy cause or will be known as not having all their dogs on one leash. The trio ” 17-year-old Willie Justin Miller, 18-year-old James Thompson and 22-year-old Matthew Gonzalez ” tried to pull off a daring rescue of […]

Maybe members of the Taliban are worried that the potency of Willie Nelson’s pot is stronger than their opium. Mortar fire disrupted a United Service Organizations concert in the middle of a Toby Keith number in the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, formerly a stronghold of the Taliban, according to a recent entertainment story in […]

According to the Bard’s “As You Like It,” “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.” The metro stage lost one if its own favorite players to a final exit recently, with the death […]

With “Iron Man” heating up the box office, Chicken Fried-News wondered about the status of that other eagerly awaited superhero movie. No, not “The Dark Knight.” No, not “The Incredible Hulk.” Yes, “The Wonder Twins.” It’s been six years since Gaylord Films ” yes, that Gaylord ” announced it was teaming with Warner Bros. to […]

As if state government didn’t already have too much of a hand in lady business, Tulsa County has made it even easier to invade a female stranger’s privacy, dismissing a felony charge against a man who, according to a Tulsa World report, snapped a photograph under a woman’s dress with his cell phone. Darwin D. […]

According to a story from News9.com’s “INsite Team,” some Oklahomans are getting energized from a mysterious drink tied to Russia. Labeled “Tunguska Blast,” the beverage is being credited for helping one man lose 35 pounds and quit smoking. “I personally take 2 ounces in the morning and 2 ounces in the evening and I have […]

Breathe a sigh of relief, University of Oklahoma grads, et al. The Norman U still exists. But for a while, said school’s officials seemed to be in doubt, after a slew of disconcerting messages in chalk and on fliers blanketed the campus. “On April 21, all operations at OU Norman will cease,” fliers reportedly distributed […]

So, a 46-year-old intruder is trying to enter the home of a 95-year-old, wheelchair-bound woman. How does this scenario play out? Well, this time, at least, it ends with the cops finding the guy lying on her front porch in a pool of his own blood, stabbed several times with a screwdriver, according to a […]