Chicken-Fried News

With nominations for the 50th annual Grammy Awards announced recently, several Oklahomans found their names on the list.   Vince Gill’s four-disc “These Days” is up for Album of the Year. Although he faces stiff competition from Kanye West, Amy Winehouse and Foo Fighters, CFN intern Bucky ” an ace Grammy predictor since the days […]

There is gloomy news coming from a mental health organization about the state of Oklahoma. The Sooner State ” with the unofficial motto “Oklahoma is OK,” where the wind comes sweeping down the plains ” is one of the most depressed states in the country.   Mental Health America ” formerly known as the National […]

The millionaire founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video franchise said he was treated pretty darn badly at the Grady County Jail while being held there on a federal tax evasion complaint, according to a recent story in The (Chickasha) Express-Star newspaper.   Attorneys for Joe Francis, 34, who is now jailed in Reno, Nev., […]

How bad can marching band smack be?   During the Nov. 24 Conference USA West Division championship game between the University of Tulsa and Rice University, “we’ve got spirit” was more like “we’ve got Satan.”   Rice’s infamously irreverent “Marching Owl Band” ” better known as the MOB ” enacted a search for TU football […]

Mere days after appearing at the Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular, five-time Olympic gold medalist and Norman resident Nadia Comaneci was among the 14 names announced to compete on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice.” The show will be an all-star version of the network’s once-bustling reality series, in which the young, upwardly mobile and completely vacuous competed for jobs […]

In the waning hours of a deadline to propose ideas on making Oklahoma a great state, it seems the state has plenty of people with lots of time on their hands. Lots of time.   Shortly after he became the state speaker of the House, Rep. Lance Cargill, R-Harrah, set forth an initiative to collect […]

According to a story in The Oklahoman, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol had Zack Dunlap, 21, of Frederick, classified as the state’s 610th accident fatality of the year for about six hours. But it appears Dunlap didn’t cotton much to being a statistic, the story shows.   The article states that Dunlap was riding his four-wheeler […]

The funeral for Donda West, mother of chart-topping hip-hop performer Kanye West, was held at a metro church on Nov. 20, according to various press reports.   The 58-year-old Oklahoma City native, a 1967 Douglass High School graduate, former college professor and Chicago State University English department chair, died in Marina Del Rey, Calif., on […]

Delegates from all over the United States found out at a recent meeting of state governments that Oklahoma’s Gov. Brad Henry knows all about takin’ care of business, according to a spokesman.   According to a source in Henry’s office who preferred to remain anonymous, the gov knows how to lay down a few hot […]

A woman who ended up trapped inside an overturned car with four pooches for two days was kept alive by ” yes ” dog drool.   KSWO-TV Channel 7 of Lawton reported recently Betty McCord, an “elderly Oklahoma woman,” was driving her ’86 Oldsmobile along Highway 9 (we knew we didn’t like that road) when […]