''The Port Arthur News'' is six-day morning

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published every day except Mondays in

Port Arthur, Texas Port Arthur is a city in Jefferson County within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Texas. A small, uninhabited portion extends into Orange County; it is east of Houston. The largest oil refinery in the United St ...

, covering

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. It is owned by Boone Newspapers. The newspaper has not missed an issue since March 17, 1897, when the Stump family, leaving

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, printed the first weekly edition in a baggage car of a train on the way to their new home. ''The News'' went daily (except Sunday) in 1901, and a Sunday edition was added in 1916 (although it was later abandoned, and then reintroduced). By 1920, all of Port Arthur's other newspapers had either folded or been bought out by ''The News''. A

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newspaper chain begun by E.S. Fentress and Charles Marsh bought ''The News'' in 1921, overseeing headquarters and press improvements, until

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bought it in 1976. Cox converted ''The News'' from an afternoon paper to morning publication in 1986. In 1991, Cox sold ''The News'', along with its sister paper '' The Orange Leader'', to American Publishing Company, which in turn dealt them to

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in 1999.PAnews.com: Port Arthur News history
accessed January 20, 2007. The pair was sold to Boone Newspapers Inc. in 2014.

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External links

''The News'' Website
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