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The Elk City Daily News is an American five-day daily newspaper published Tuesday through Friday, and Sunday, in Elk City, Oklahoma. History. The newspaper has been in publication since 1901, six years prior to Oklahoma statehood. The publication was previously owned by several members of the Wade Family of Elk City, including Elizabeth Wade ...
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said six people died in a crash near the intersection of Route 66 and OK 34 in western Oklahoma on ... into the Beckham County jail at 8:04 p.m. ... Elk City Oklahoma ...
Carpenter is an unincorporated community in Roger Mills and Custer counties in the state of Oklahoma, United States. [1] The community is eight miles north of Elk City, Oklahoma. [2] It was named in commemoration of Benjamin Carpenter, an early settler of western Oklahoma who moved there from Texas in 1898. [3]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976. The total amounts to 126 people, and all were executed by lethal injection . [ 1 ] Of the 125 people, 122 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
Elk City is a city in Beckham County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 11,561 at the time of the 2020 census , [ 4 ] a slight decrease from the 11,693 figure of the 2010 census . [ 5 ] Elk City is located on Interstate 40 and Historic U.S. Route 66 in western Oklahoma, approximately 110 miles (180 km) west of Oklahoma City and 150 ...
History of the Oklahoma Press and the Oklahoma Press Association (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Press Association, 1930). Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", Oklahoma: a Guide to the Sooner State , American Guide Series , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 74–82, ISBN 9781603540353 – via Google Books
Michael Shadid. Michael Shadid. Michael Abraham Shadid (Arabic: مايكل أبراهام شديد 1882 – August 13, 1966) was a Lebanese physician who founded the first medical cooperative in Elk City, Oklahoma, in 1931. [1] He was the first president of the Cooperative Health Federation of America, and an advocate for cooperative health ...
On July 6, 1984, in Elk City, Oklahoma, seven-year-old Layla Cummings (November 7, 1976 – July 7, 1984) was abducted, raped, and murdered by Richard Norman Rojem Jr., who was previously convicted and jailed for sex offenses. Rojem, who was formerly married to Cummings's mother before their divorce, was convicted of murdering Cummings and ...