Chicken-Fried News

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 […]

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 […]

According to stories in the Los Angeles Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the doctor who helped execute Timothy McVeigh is the subject of 20-plus malpractice suits, has been barred from two hospitals and also has been barred from performing executions in Missouri because of concerns about his reported dyslexia interfering with the job. But the […]

We’ve really been meaning to install a pendulum out back that can saw visitors in half, with plans to follow it up with a pit of alligators. But we haven’t found the time, and now our deathtrap dreams have been beaten by a Newcastle man stealing our thunder “¦ er, make that lightning.   As […]

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 […]

You know what they say about matches made in heaven? This apparently isn’t that story.   Among Statehood Day events scheduled for Friday in Guthrie is a re-creation of the symbolic wedding between a Cherokee woman and white man, which in 1907 represented the joining of Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory.   Brenda Golden, a […]

Sometimes, it pays to keep one’s mouth shut. Especially when you’ve been convicted of posing as a federal official. Don’t call the Russian embassy and say you are working to assassinate President Vladimir Putin.   William James Clark is alleged to have done just that, according to The Associated Press. Clark, who was convicted for […]

This is getting old. Proving everything really does come in threes, Tulsa author William Bernhardt was arrested for the third time this year in an alcohol-related incident.   You’ll recall his arrests in February and March, the latter of which followed an intoxicated drive that took down one unfortunate mailbox (and almost a motorcyclist). At […]

In the wake of the Oral Roberts University scandal, a U.S. senator announced an investigation of possible financial wrongdoing by a group of televangelists. Three of those evangelical media moguls ” Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar ” are on the ORU board of regents, according to The Associated Press.   OK, we’re not […]

Some teens go to the movies for fun. Others, the mall. Four from Porter? Meat lockers.   Dennis Lang, Jenna Parnell, Melissa Gaither and Katelyn Acree spent hours evaluating meat quality around the state recently, beefing up for a late-October contest at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, according to the Tulsa World. By the […]