Chicken-Fried News

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 […]

Police in Shawnee found themselves searching for a horse of a different color when someone hoofed it with a full-sized decorative fiberglass horse from the local Sonic Drive-In restaurant, according to recent stories.   According to The Shawnee News Star, the horse was part of a city centennial display project called “Horse in the City,” […]

Hear that? No, it’s not the loons from “On Golden Pond” welcoming us back, but the fiery temper of actress Katharine Hepburn smiting the Sooner State from her grave.   The Oscar-winning legend may have passed away in 2003, but her reportedly short fuse continues to spark, thanks to 22 boxes of her writings and […]

The FBI wants to stop a videotape interview with convicted Oklahoma City federal building bombing conspirator Terry Nichols to maintain privacy and security.   Let’s repeat.   The FBI is concerned about the potential invasion of privacy posed by an interview with a man serving a life sentence for his part in the worst domestic […]

Excuses, excuses. Come get your excuses.   It’s not every day that entrepreneurs come along with something that really, really works ” and this deal apparently works better than the Popeil Pocket Fisherman.   According to a story by The Associated Press, out of the mighty metropolis of Thackerville comes the “Excused Absence Network” company, […]