Chicken-Fried News

Well, it’s official: Oklahoma-born children adopted by out-of-state, same-sex couples exist after all. (Since 2004, it’s been questionable, when a state law began barring issuing them birth certificates.)   The Oklahoma State Department of Health said last week it won’t challenge a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that affirmed a federal judge’s ruling that […]

Police arrested an Allen man recently who ended up getting caught in somewhat of a clincher.   According to the Ada Evening News, police stopped two individuals at 2 a.m. on a recent Tuesday for an alleged expired tag along with heavy exhaust fumes ” at least it looked like exhaust ” from the vehicle’s […]

KWTV Channel 9’s Dean Blevins reportedly spent hours in a Tulsa emergency room after suffering fainting spells during an Aug. 6 practice round at the PGA Championship at Tulsa’s Southern Hills.   The Tulsa World reported the 51-year-old sports director was taken to St. Francis Hospital. Blevins was sweatin’ up a storm and had to […]

One metro couple seems to have struck on the gift that keeps on giving ” when it comes to celebrating the thrill, thrill of their wedding a year ago last week.   The first episode of ABC’s 9 p.m. Tuesday “iCaught” show ” which follows the stories behind popular Internet videos ” featured Moore residents […]

Eddie would like to be man’s best friend, but it appears some of the men in Coal County don’t want Eddie as a friend.   According to a story in the Ada Evening News, Eddie was obtained by the Coal County sheriff’s office more than a year ago to be a law enforcement drug dog. […]

OK, CFN readers, which of these items probably brought in the most money from a recent benefit auction?   Tickets to an Oklahoma RedHawks baseball game, a one-night stay at the Courtyard Marriott hotel in downtown Oklahoma City, a golf-outing package or a bra autographed by a television show host?   If you answered any […]

Nothing like an aquatic creature to completely ruin your golf game.   That’s the problem right now at Claremore’s Heritage Hills Golf Course. Officials say an invasive species, the zebra mussel, muscled its way into the golf course sprinkler system via Lake Oologah, clogging it up, according to stories in The Claremore Daily Progress.   […]

An Oklahoma schoolteacher gave it his best shot, but fell just short of winning a $1 million prize for using his mind and creativity.   Rick DeRennaux, who teaches special education students at Bethany High School, made the finalists’ stage of the ABC program “American Inventor.” He was among three finalists; however, DeRennaux was the […]

No longer languishing in Oklahoma’s backwater dating scene, U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin, R-Oklahoma City, finally is getting a chance to let her hair down, according to a Washington, D.C., insider publication.   According to the July 24 issue of “The Hill,” Fallin, 52, is listed as one of the “50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol […]

One local woman wants Oklahoma City to “give peeps a chance.” She’s crying foul against zoning laws that prohibit owning chickens within city limits on land less than one acre.   The unidentified female has set up a MySpace page ” www.myspace.com/urbanchickens ” to gain support for her cause and establish a new pecking order. […]