Chicken-Fried News

Before Oklahoma can blow out her 100 birthday candles, one lawmaker is asking how much the party favors cost.   Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-OklahomaCity, called on the Oklahoma Centennial Commission to be more explicit about how much moolah is going toward 147 centennial projects announced recently.   “It’s not enough to tell the taxpayers where […]

After being buried in Florida for more than three decades, the remains of diminutive actor Michael Dunn have relocated to SunsetMemorial Park in Norman. So take that, Paris, with your Jim Morrison grave!   Dunn ” born Gary Miller in Shattuck ” is best known for his recurring role as the evil Dr. Loveless on […]

This actually would be funny if it didn’t involve federal prisoners.   A few inmates at the federal prison in El Reno apparently thought they could extort their way out of prison, according to an indictment detailed in the Tulsa World. It ended up landing the inmates with federal indictments.   Federal prosecutors allege the […]

A Midwest City woman details life as the wife of a convicted murderer in the August 2007 issue of Redbook magazine. Justeen Cosar met her hubby, Aaron, while accompanying a friend whose spouse was in the clink.   “I told Aaron that I worked as a court reporter and was a single mother of three […]

In an effort to stop wasteful spending ” after all, the government needs $135 billion for the war in Iraq ” Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn is going to go for the real big spenders: government mascots, according to The Associated Press.   According to the AP, Coburn thinks that the federal government is spending way […]

Perhaps attracted by our state’s cheap real estate, Thor is relocating to Oklahoma, where he will battle evildoers.   That’s right. Marvel Comics recently announced the resurrection of the comic series started in 1962 by Spider-Man creator Stan Lee, and will locate the hero in Oklahoma, according to a release from the company.   Disguised […]

The New York Daily News called it “a black eye.” The Los Angles Times proclaimed it “one of the most punishing losses.” And USA Today remarked it “added to Oklahoma’s pain.”   Those widely read publications were not talking about the Dust Bowl or even Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart’s latest online photos. The subject […]

Do not, repeat, do not feed the prairie dogs.   The little dickens have long been a part of the landscape of Lawton’s Elmer Thomas Park near downtown, doing what prairie dogs do ” standing watch, scurrying around, eating handouts and making more prairie dogs. According to a recent Oklahoman article, the Lawton City Council […]

Oklahoma and the world of cartooning have lost a talented and witty colleague. The Tulsa World’s Doug Marlette, author of the comic strip “Kudzu” and a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, died July 10 from an automobile crash in Mississippi. Marlette joined the Tulsa World last year and quickly enamored himself with the world of Oklahoma […]

Either the DirecTV call center in Tulsa needs better telephone lines, or the intensive customer service training at the center is getting too intense.   According to a story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a husband and wife in Savage, Minn., are suing after an incident last fall when having satellite television installed in their […]