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UPDATE: The anti-Agenda 21 bill passed the state House and is headed to the Senate.

Conspiracy-minded Oklahomans soon may be free to remove their tinfoil hats! House Bill 1412, a measure designed to protect the state from the United Nations’ insidious Agenda 21 sustainability initiative, has passed its first legislative hurdle.

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We can all agree that Derek Fisher’s return to Oklahoma City Thunder is a good thing, right?

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Science homework might be a little easier for Oklahoma students in the near future, depending on how you look at it. House Bill 1674 by Rep. Gus Blackwell, R-Laverne, would allow students to turn in schoolwork that challenges “controversial topics” such as “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming and human cloning” without adverse consequences, such as a pesky bad grade. It also will force teachers to come up with more creative ways of handling such subjects.

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Steve Green, the president of Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby, spoke at Bob Jones University on Feb. 25. According to a statement from the Christian fundamentalist university, Green was to tell the story of his family’s Christian company and discuss the Green Collection, the world’s largest collection of biblical manuscripts and antiquities.

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The fiscally conservative Club for Growth is going RINO-hunting, and in its sights is “big government liberal” U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Cheyenne.

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Freshly appointed federal Judge Robert Bacharach has been receiving so much praise from lawmakers lately, it's enough to make you wonder why it took the Senate so darned long to confirm the Edmond resident to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Oklahoma is known for many things — breath-stealing wind, real-life cowboys, annoying Broadway theme songs — but not least among them is that it’s the horse show capital of the world.

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Ever locked eyes with a sexy stranger and lamented later that it wasn’t followed by locked lips? If so, the ongoing popularity of Craigslist’s “missed connections” proves that you’re not alone.

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Chicken-Fried News didn’t realize Kevin Durant still had any ties left to cut with Seattle. But the Thunder superstar, who began his NBA career with the team formerly known as the SuperSonics, recently sold his house on Washington’s Mercer Island for a cool $2.4 million.

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Whether spontaneous human combustion is real has long been a debate in the scientific world, to say nothing of the world of bong hits in the dorm room. It has neither been proven nor disproven, although there are many theories as to how it might occur, and suspected cases date back to the 17th century.

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Oklahoma City’s own The Flaming Lips are no stranger to Austin, Texas’ annual South by Southwest festival — in the music portion, of course.

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We’ll say this for Big Tobacco: Even a widely vilified industry that makes its profit from killing people knows how to wield power. That much was evident last week when the Senate General Government Committee killed a bill that would have let cities craft stronger antismoking ordinances than what’s allowed by state law.

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Tiny actress Kristin Chenoweth, interviewing shiny actress Renée Zellweger on the Academy Awards pre-show on Feb. 24:

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Here in the Heartland — or the buckle of the Bible Belt, depending on your cliché of choice — it’s difficult to fathom that there could be other states more conservative than Oklahoma.

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On Jan. 18, the rest of the nation learned something the 405 already knew: You should familiarize your ears with this Jabee guy.