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The Ada News is a daily newspaper published five days a week in Ada, Oklahoma. The publication's coverage area includes Pontotoc County and portions of Coal County , Garvin County , Hughes County , Johnston County , Murray County and Seminole County .
Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] The population was 16,481 at the 2020 United States Census . The city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of an early settler, and was incorporated in 1901. [ 5 ]
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham, his only nonfiction title as of 2020.The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death.
Pontotoc County is a county in the south central part of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,065. [1] Its county seat is Ada. [2] The county was created at statehood from part of the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory. It was named for a historic Chickasaw tribal area in Mississippi.
100.1 KYKC in Ada, Oklahoma, previously declined a listener's request to play one of the singer's new country songs, "Texas Hold 'Em." The released single is from her forthcoming album, which is ...
The Ada Independent School District is a school district based in Ada, Oklahoma ( United States ). It includes seven schools and serves more than 2,600 students. [1] The district has a jagged eastern border that stretches as far N3930 Road. Its western boundary is west of U.S. Route 377 in the north and S. Oak Avenue in the south.
KTEN's history traces back to 1952, when Eastern Oklahoma Television Inc.—a locally based company owned by Bill Hoover, C. C. Morris and Brown Morris, who also owned radio stations KADA (1230 AM) in Ada and KWSH (1260 AM) in Wewoka through their Oklahoma Broadcasting Company subsidiary [2] —applied with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a license to operate a television ...
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