Chicken-Fried News

So what does the Video Vigilante do in whatever spare time is not taken up by playing “Candid Camera” with metro-area whores? He reviews eateries, shares gift tips and plays Skip-Bo! Hey, you gotta do something while awaiting trial, right?   Brian Bates ” aka the Video Vigilante, who regularly captures footage of sex-for-cash transactions […]

Tahlequah recently hosted paranormal investigators from all over the country who met to discuss the trade and its scientific and spiritual methodology, the Tahlequah Daily Press reported.   The Oklahoma Paranormal Research and Investigations sponsored the 2007 “Para-Float” last Friday and Saturday, presumably to discuss research techniques. CFN could not confirm any double-fisting of Coors […]

  It’s official. Budding young whippersnappers at the University of Oklahoma’s student-run newspaper will have a new guru to guide them in their first interactions with the fourth estate.   Judy Gibbs Robinson was named The Oklahoma Daily’s adviser June 6, replacing the retiring Jack Willis.   A 30-year journalism veteran, Robinson handled minority affairs […]

Dude’s walking down the street, wearing only a towel, and along comes a police officer “¦   Well, that’s what happened around noon on a Friday in Edmond recently, when police were notified that a man was walking along the southbound ramp of Interstate 35 and Second Street, wearing only a towel.   According to […]

That’s southeastern Oklahoma for ya ” they’re rough, tough and they don’t take any “¦ well, wait. One does.   A PushmatahaCounty man faces a felony charge because of a complaint he was taking raw sewage and grease and dumping them on his own land without a permit.   According to a recent story, Clyde […]

News providers would call it a bad knock-on-wood moment, but metro residents sick of grimacing at the gas pump might’ve savored a fleeting taste of irony, recently, when a Tulsa TV station’s reportedly erroneous Web story caused oil prices to jump briefly worldwide.   According to a Reuters report, “Web site error rocks global oil […]

For the second year in a row, the Oklahoma Heritage Association has inducted a person to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame whose honor was long overdue.   Last year, Okemah’s legendary folksinger Woody Guthrie received his spot among the state’s greats. This year, Luper will take her place, along with seven other inductees in November. […]

Who knew so-called tort reform and sex had so much in common?   During this past legislative session, lawmakers again wrestled with “tort reform,” a means by which to adjust to the legal system to prevent frivolous lawsuits. Would-be reformers claimed the system is rigged and costing the state and business community millions of dollars […]

Stevie Nicks must be traveling without MapQuest. At her May 30 Zoo Amphitheatre performance, the “Witchy Woman” wanted to dedicate “Landslide” to someone in the audience. Since Nicks didn’t know anybody locally, she said she’d dedicate the ditty to her favorite Oklahoman: Bill Clinton.   Now, we all know Clinton hails from Arkansas, the land […]

According to a story in The Edmond Sun, a high school graduation party led to the arrests of two parents who allowed the festivities at their house.   The story states that the party, held in an Edmond subdivision with the appropriately Edmond subdivision-y name “Crown Colony Court,” garnered a visit from the Edmond police […]