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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

  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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]