Chicken-Fried News

People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks, but here at Chicken-Fried News we like to pitch irony. In the height of centennial celebrations, a Tulsa woman bought a postcard that suggests we’ve all been taught the wrong version of Oklahoma history.   Forget Oklahoma City ” or even Guthrie “Yvonna Coulter discovered her […]

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 […]

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 […]

Who says this still isn’t the wild, wild West? When a man allegedly attempted to rob a Purcell liquor store recently, what did the owner do?   He threw back the F-bomb “¦ and then some.   Butch’s Cork & Bottle owner Butch Kluth was minding his business on a late afternoon in the small […]

It seems a former employee of a district attorney’s office was pulling the old MuskogeeCounty shuffle with a computer when vacating the office. An audit of the files possibly reveals why.   Desks were cleared after longtime District Attorney John David Luton was defeated in his re-election bid back in November. Luton had served as […]

Oklahoma City police are on the lookout for two shoplifters who recently exited the Family Dollar at 3907 N. MacArthur, leaving some almost absconded items “¦ and one well-aimed punch to the face of a pregnant woman in their wake.   As reported on KWTV Channel 9, surveillance tape shows a man and woman trying […]

You know what they say about opinions. That old adage especially rings true with the University of Oklahoma’s student newspaper, The Oklahoma Daily, where viewpoints have been flowing faster than vetoes from the governor’s office.   It all started when The Daily’s editorial board, under the guidance of Editor William W. “Tres” Savage III (a […]

Pedophilia got a touch of pageantry last week when “America’s Most Wanted” showed recent footage of an underage sex sting operation involving Lauren Nelson, Oklahoma’s current Miss America.   Lawton native Nelson is 20, mind you, but her would-be suitors online didn’t know that.   According to an Associated Press reporter, the reigning M.A. worked […]

When are Oklahoma’s salt plains more exciting than “¦ well, a lot of dusty, dry dirt piles?   When they rise up and bite you back!   Maybe Bucky’s getting carried away. But a Boy Scout got a mysterious surprise recently when he was digging for selenite crystals in the northwest Salt Plains National Wildlife […]

  Poor Rich Maril. He probably woke up one morning and was reading the newspaper, only to find out that he was dead.   A little blurb in The Ponca City News notified readers recently that the paper made a little mistake concerning their dead ” uh, sorry ” dear friend and resident Ponca Citian, […]