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Headquarters. Laredo, Webb County, Texas, USA. Circulation. 5,034 (as of 2023) [1] Website. www.lmtonline.com. The Laredo Morning Times displays seven flags which have flown over the Laredo area during its history. The Laredo Morning Times is a daily newspaper publication based in Laredo, Texas, USA. It is owned by the Hearst Corporation.
As of the 2010, Laredo is the 81st-most populous city in the United States and the 10th-largest in Texas. According to the 2010 census [6][28][29] there were 236,091 inhabitants in the city. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of Laredo was: Whites: 87.7%, non-Hispanic Whites: 3.86%.
1790 - Population: 708. 1821 - Laredo becomes part of independent Mexican Empire. [4] 1840 - Laredo becomes capital of the Mexican insurgent Republic of the Rio Grande during the Mexican Federalist War. [4] 1846 - Laredo taken by U.S. Texas Rangers during the Mexican–American War. [5] 1847 - U.S. forces occupy town. [5]
The Washington Birthday Celebration Building in Laredo is designed to loosely resemble Mount Vernon. The Washington's Birthday Celebration (WBCA) [1] is an almost month-long event held each February in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas, that celebrates the birthday of George Washington. It is the largest celebration of its kind in ...
Laredo–Nuevo Laredo (UN/LOCODE: USLRD & MXNLD), otherwise known as the " Four-State Area " or the " Quad State Area ", is one of six transborder agglomerations along the U.S.-Mexican border. The city of Laredo is situated in the U.S. state of Texas on the northern bank of the Rio Grande and Nuevo Laredo is located in the Mexican State of ...
A Laredo native, Martin was the paternal grandson of Raymond Martin, a wealthy Laredo landowner. His parents were J. C. Martin, Sr. (1886–1957) and the former Minnie Bruni (1889–1973). The Martin Building, on the campus of Laredo Community College , dedicated in 1970 and renovated in 2016, is named in honor of the senior Joseph Martin.
On June 21, 2008, KGNS-TV began producing a weeknight, 9 p.m. newscast on its CW-affiliated second digital subchannel titled Laredo's First News at 9. This program was the only prime time newscast in the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo market until Fox affiliate KXOF-CA launched a competing 9 p.m. newscast on April 9, 2012. The half-hour newscast is ...
A printed newspaper with the same name was launched in Laredo in 1999 but failed to compete with Laredo's main newspaper, the Laredo Morning Times, and fell out of print almost immediately. The Laredo Sun now operates solely online as an English-language news source for readers in Laredo, Texas, and the surrounding community.