Chicken-Fried News

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 […]

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 […]

  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, […]

Some residents of McAlester are getting to know each other very well thanks to their local gas company.   About 250 homes had their gas turned off after their utility, Public Gas Co., failed to make payment to its supplier, the McAlester News-Capital reported. Residents were not told about the financial blunder and, without warning, […]

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 […]

When is addressing breast cancer a bit too risqué? Apparently for administrators at Oklahoma Union High School ” according to a mom-daughter duo ” in school.   Samantha Kuehn, a senior at the rural school near Bartlesville, got sent home to change recently after she sported what the principal termed an “inappropriate” article of clothing: […]

Given last week’s tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, Chicken-Fried News understands that college campuses nationwide have every reason to be on edge and hyperalert. But that shouldn’t affect one’s ability to recognize common household objects.   On the morning of April 17, one day after a student killed 33 people, including himself, at Virginia Tech, […]

Hopefully Zac Roberts will not get an unexcused absence for skipping out of class one day last week.   The second-grader at PleasantValeElementary School in Enid received one heck of a surprise birthday present when his father walked into the classroom. Army Reservist Sgt. Ray Roberts had been stationed in Afghanistan and just arrived back […]