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published in

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, covering

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. It does not publish a Sunday or Monday edition. The newspaper is published by

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. The ''Herald-Banner'' also publishes two

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s: the ''Rockwall County Herald-Banner'' and ''Royse City Herald-Banner''.

History

John C. Bayne began publishing ''The Herald'', a weekly newspaper, in

in 1869. In 1890, the daily ''Morning Herald'' was begun under editor Edwin W. Harris, publishing alongside the weekly newspaper. The two newspapers would eventually merge under the ''Morning Herald'' ownership of the W.C. Poole family. Another Bayne paper, the ''Independent'' (est. 1875), was renamed the ''Independent Banner'' when J.F. Mitchell bought it from Bayne in 1882. It became a daily named the ''Evening Banner'' in 1894 under the ownership of R.C. Dial, who sold the property to Fred Horton in 1907.

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bought the ''Evening Banner'' from the Horton family in 1954, sparking a competition between the crosstown ''Banner'' and ''Herald''. After two years, the company bought the ''Morning Herald'' from the Poole family in 1956, merging the two papers as the ''Herald-Banner''. A court case followed, with Harte-Hanks accused of

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