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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] Ada is home to East Central University, and is the capital of the Chickasaw Nation.
530 E. Main St., Ada, Oklahoma 74820 USA. Circulation. 5,000 Daily [1] Website. theadanews .com. 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.
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.
August 8, 2024 at 5:21 PM. Getty Images/iStockphoto. Officials on Thursday released the name of a driver who died about two weeks after a crash in Caldwell that caused the man’s pregnant ...
The city of Edmond, Oklahoma, has agreed to a $7.15 million settlement with a man who served 48 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, his attorney announced.
Ron Williamson. Ronald Keith Williamson (February 3, 1953 – December 4, 2004) was a former minor league baseball catcher/pitcher who was one of two men wrongly convicted in 1988 in Oklahoma for the rape and murder of Debra Sue "Debbie" Carter. His former friend Dennis Fritz was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Williamson was sentenced to ...
Despite the jail’s overcrowding, the number of arrests throughout Ada County has declined in the last 10 years. In 2022, law enforcement agencies throughout the county made 10,495 arrests ...
The Chickasaw Nation ( Chickasaw: Chikashsha I̠yaakni) is a federally recognized Native American tribe with headquarters in Ada, Oklahoma, in the United States. They are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, originally from northern Mississippi, northwestern Alabama, southwestern Kentucky, and western Tennessee. [4] Today, the ...