Chicken-Fried News

Just when we stopped worrying about giant octopuses “¦   On CFN’s list of reasons not to go outside: 1. the sweltering heat, 2. the sweltering heat, 3. the sweltering heat. And now, 4. giant wasps!   Warns Samantha Snyder, horticulture educator at the Oklahoma County Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extensive Service, giant wasps are […]

The announcement that Fox Sports television is bringing in former University of Oklahoma head football coach Barry Switzer as an analyst did more than just raise eyebrows in the CFN department. It actually got Bucky out of his chair for a quick “Boomer Sooner” yell ” which set off the building alarm.   The charismatic […]

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 […]

The law wasn’t fuzzy for a cross-dressing man whom police say swiped a $1 pair of fuzzy dice from a local Dollar General store, per a recent story.   According to the McAlester News Capitol, the 19-year-old faces up to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine for alleged larceny of merchandise from a […]

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. […]

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 […]

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.   […]