Chicken-Fried News

Nights in rural eastern Oklahoma have a lot of stars ” but it’s another thing to find stripes.   Sharon McConough knew something was odd at her rural Ranger Creek home near Fort Gibson Lake, something making her shepherd, Bizzy, bark like mad, according to a story in the Muskogee Phoenix.   Of course, the […]

For the last few days of September, Okies can vie to get man’s best scratchers on, well, lottery “scratchers.” The Oklahoma Lottery is seeking the state’s most “photogenic” pooches to feature on a “Lucky Dog Scratcher” game piece hitting streets in December.   Residents can submit a photo of their dog to www.lottery.ok.gov through Sept. […]

The U.S. Air Force wants a bit of a word with two British chaps, who ” how do the Americans say it? ” got the hell out of Dodge after security caught them with a telephoto lens looking at military aircraft near Enid’s Vance Air Force Base.   As reported in The Enid News & […]

Whatever happened to that Oklahoma football fan accused of tearing the scrotum of the guy wearing a Longhorns shirt?   The Associated Press reports Allen Michael Beckett, a 53-year-old Sooner fan, will appear in court Oct. 4 ” only days before the Red River Rivalry between the Sooners and the Longhorns. Beckett, a federal auditor, […]

Adults love to remind kids they have no rights, even while they are teaching them about all the rights granted by the U.S. Constitution. Administrators with Tulsa Public Schools seem to have taken the creed one step further by celebrating students’ constitutional void.   Dozens of students at Tulsa’s Rogers High School tried to exert […]

And, to continue the whole doctorin’ theme “¦   One Kay County town kicked up centennial festivities a notch with its celebration of, as Oklahoman state correspondent Jim Etter reported recently, “one of the most unusual events during Oklahoma’s centennial”: “the horse liniment that made Newkirk famous.”   Whoa, Nellie.   Held Sept. 8 this […]

Anybody who’s read The Oklahoman probably couldn’t miss a series of full-page ads talking about a proposed coal-fired, electricity-generating plant.   The dueling ads were either against the coal ” supporting the viewpoint of Oklahoma gas drilling giant Chesapeake Energy Corp. ” or for it ” funded by Oklahoma Gas and Electric, which wants to […]

CFN intern Bucky loves to live it up out on the town. The guy is loyal, but he’s not all that intelligent. We’ve recommended a number of Bricktown bars at which he could get his drink on, but he claims he never can find them. We finally figured out why: Their names are misspelled.   […]

A 60-year-old woman bested an alleged Texas con man after he tried to play doctor with her $30,000 Rolex watch.   According to a version of the story in the Star newspaper in Texas, the woman was attempting to sell the Rolex Presidential watch through a newspaper ad when a man who identified himself as […]

There are many ways to pick numbers for the lottery. But, a Sallisaw woman found the right combination of sports and betting.   Sixty-year-old Nita K. Jacobs, a Texas transplant, got an Aug. 25 call from her neighbor, who wanted to know if Jacobs was interested in picking any Powerball numbers, The Associated Press reported. […]