Chicken-Fried News

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, […]

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 […]

Welcome to Oklahoma, where our chickens aren’t animals, our beer is nonintoxicating, our watermelons are vegetables, and our doo-doo don’t stink.   The efforts of RushSprings’ favorite son, state Rep. Joe Dorman, finally bore fruit.   Oops. Make that vegetable. The rural Okie Democrat moved heaven, Earth and apparently genome to get the state vegetable […]

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, […]

Ya know, it’s an interesting life that longtime Oklahoma City attorney Mike Gassaway leads. He shakes his fist at the powers that be; he’s done time in the joint (albeit for just a couple of months, but hey); and, once again, he dodges the bullet.   According to The Associated Press, Gassaway allegedly said he […]

What can you do with 3.5 million Washingtons?   Bucky took a Web whirl: Pay for Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan “¦ through 2009. Buy the property of Tulsa’s iconic (but demolition-slated) Camelot Hotel (complete with moat and drawbridge). Cover the operating expenses of schools shorted in the recent legislative budget, according to Treasurer Scott Meacham […]

Like in a broken marriage, where the partners need their best friend to run messages back and forth, Gov. Brad Henry and the Senate Democrats appear ready to fight over who gets the car and who gets the dog.   The past few weeks have seen the two sides squabbling over everything from money to […]

Having trudged through jury duty twice in the past three years, Chicken-Fried News feels for the impaneled men and women deciding the guilt or innocence of Antwyon Deangelo Turner in the murder of Leroy Joseph Vigil.   According to a report in The Oklahoman, one of the 12 jurors was dismissed on April 12 because […]

One of Oklahoma’s space pioneers has a chance to return to space ” even after he has passed from this life. Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. didn’t have to wait for Oklahoma to build its own rocket. Instead, he became one of America’s first seven astronauts back in the dawn of time (called the Sixties). You […]