Every high school student reading David Thoreau’s Walden has probably fantasized about leaving society behind and living off the land. What if you wanted to consume public utilities and drive on streets paved with taxpayer dollars but don’t want to contribute to the greater good and also be above the law? Well that, dear readers, […]
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Gentle warrior
It was a sunny, warm October day when Cannabis Aid, 1612 NE 23rd St., began selling the products that gave the dispensary its name, but the rain is unending and the skies a deep dull gray on the first day doors open after the murders of founder Elijah Malachi X Mothershed Bey and his family. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Airplane drunk
In Oklahoma City, we tend to arrest drunk people on the ground. They’ve had too much fun in Classen Curve, are out for a big night downtown or have put away too many and wandered out of the alcohol zone with a drink in their hands at a festival. They usually don’t come from the […]
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Hashed out
If an ordinance introduced to Oklahoma City Council members Aug. 28 passes later this month, when the council votes on it, Oklahoma County Jail will no longer hold prisoners for possession of marijuana or marijuana paraphernalia. “This is a cause for celebration,” Ward 2 council member Ed Shadid said of the ordinance introduced by Oklahoma […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Ahoy!
What started as a recent burglary in Edmond that earned the accused a funny nickname soon turned into a cross-region crime spree.
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Disability rights and justice advocates want reform in police training and practices
Disability rights and justice advocates want reform in police training and practices following an officer-involved shooting of a deaf man.
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Chicken-Fried News: Chicken-Fried fury
An Oklahoma City man threatened to blow up a local Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen because they ran out of something he wanted.
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Chicken-Fried News: Dead body
Someone recently stumbled upon a dead body in a local video and novelty store.
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Chicken-Fried News: Mall brawl
Shoppers at Penn Square Mall were recently evacuated when a fight broke out in the food court.
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Chicken-Fried News: Strip search
A man was caught on camera trying to steal bacon from a local grocery store.