Today, Gov. Kevin Stitt issued a Safer at Home order saying all vulnerable Oklahomans should avoid leaving home except to get essentials like groceries and medicine through April 30. Stitt’s order closes nonessential businesses (businesses involving close contact, such as hair salons, spas, gyms and tattoo parlors) in 19 counties by 11:59 Wednesday for 21 […]
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Alcoholmanac Sunday spirits
Oklahoma’s liquor laws have come a long way in a matter of years. In October 2018, State Question 792 changed the game for Oklahoma breweries and liquor stores. The alcohol law reform went into effect that month and allowed breweries to sell their full-strength beers in grocery and convenience stores. It also allowed accompanied guests […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Going big
Remember the guy who led law enforcement agencies on a three-hour high-speed chase with a stolen vehicle in 2017? You might have seen him live on any local news station or on his personal Facebook page where he was broadcasting a big part of the chase. “I’m thinking, hopefully, if I get to Cleveland County, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Extradition escapade
In the most famous scene in the movie version of The Fugitive, Harrison Ford’s Dr. Richard Kimble escapes Tommy Lee Jones’s Samuel Gerard by taking a death-defying plunge off the side of a dam. One difference between that cinematic scene and a real fugitive case that played out at Will Rogers World Airport is that […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Fuzzy Math
We here at Chicken-Fried News would calculate that Oklahomans are as good at math as just about anybody. Unfortunately, that might be because, as Oklahomans, our math scores fall below the national average, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, so we have to assume our calculations might be a little faulty. Maybe […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Cupcake caper
A Cleveland County man really “nailed it” during a road rage incident that led to an assault charge that involved a cupcake. According to the Pauls Valley Democrat, Trevor Pearson has been charged with a misdemeanor at the end of August stemming from an alleged road rage incident that ended with Pearson throwing a cupcake […]
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Signature smoke
The journey to opening the brick-and-mortar location of Cornish Smokehouse began six years ago as a trail of hickory and pecan smoke enticed people from Chris and Nicole Cornish’s neighborhood out of their homes and to their front door to place an order. After encouragement from friends and family, Chris took his hobby of cooking […]
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Special elections offer a glimpse into Oklahoma’s political battles only a year away from statewide elections
Special elections offer a glimpse into Oklahoma’s political battles only a year away from statewide elections.
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“The inside is so colorful and bright, and that was the mission; we didn’t want a place where you walk in and it’s kind of sad and stark and cold-feeling,” she said.
“The inside is so colorful and bright, and that was the mission; we didn’t want a place where you walk in and it’s kind of sad and stark and cold-feeling,” she said.
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Chicken-Fried News: Norman smoke signals
The Friendly Market proprietors were let off the hook when a Cleveland County jury found them not guilty of selling drug paraphernalia.