Chicken-Fried News

Ah, freedom of speech, that blessing our forefathers gifted us with a can of worms.   Case in point: A recent addition to the metro’s billboard landscape on Interstate 35 by the OklahomaRiver. The white expanse features a cartoon of a Revolutionary War-esque patriot, an upside-down American flag topped by the Mexican standard, the phrase […]

If watching the local TV news sometimes has you wishing you were on angel dust, save your brain cells and instead experience a comedy high, courtesy of a four-minute, locally shot short film making its way across those Internets.   “The News” is a parody of just that, “as seen through the eyes of a […]

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 […]

Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett says he won’t sign a national pledge to curtail greenhouse gas emissions because he doesn’t believe the science regarding global warming is solid, according to The Oklahoman.   Tulsa became the 500th city to make the list last week after Mayor Kathy Taylor signed her John Hancock, joining Norman, which […]

Move over Ninja Turtles. When it comes to mutant-esque reptiles, Oklahoma has you beat.   The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released 277 alligator snapping turtles, which had nearly disappeared from the state, into Oklahoma’s southeastern waters, The Associated Press reported.   Which means CFN intern Bucky is going to give said area a […]

An 8-year-old ClevelandElementary School student won the top prize among third-graders in a short-story contest sponsored by PBS.   According to a press release, for the “Reading Rainbow Young Writers Contest,” Hannah Carlson entered her tale about “a pizza family living at CiCi’s Pizza. “¦ Her story features five family members representing different slices of […]

The Woodstock moment arrived just in time at the state Capitol. After weeks of throwing dirty-mouth-filled balloons at each other, the governor and Legislature came to an agreement on the state budget. While all the major players involved in the budget negotiations praised each other for their bipartisan efforts in reaching a budget, we at […]

A new anti-abortion measure that passed the Senate recently prompted at least one senator to suggest that other lawmakers think outside the box.   Among other restrictions, Senate Bill 139 would require doctors track the women on whom they performed the procedure.   While state bureaucrats will be given statistics on all those involved, they […]

Quick! What’s the one thing missing that Oklahoma needs? You said “major pro sports team,” didn’t you? Well, the state is thinking more along the lines of “deadly disease research lab.”   Oklahoma is one of a dozen of these United States vying to play host for a lab brimming with lethal viruses, from anthrax […]

Few conspiracy theorists these days ever got the notoriety or relevance of Oklahoma bombing writer J.D. Cash from McCurtainCounty. Cash, 55, died last week from liver disease and pneumonia in a Tulsa hospital, ending a pretty dang interesting second career.   Cash’s first career, that of a mortgage banker, ended when he took to a […]