[2] The paper is owned by Southern Newspapers Inc., a news-media company based in Houston, Texas.

Due to the economic pressures caused by the Great Depression, in 1931 the Daily Tribune merged with newspapers in the nearby communities of Pelly and Baytown.

[5] In December 1985, the Baytown Police Department received five letters from someone identifying themselves as "Madman" and claiming to have been the killer in the Halloween murder of a local 11-year-old girl.

Each letter contained a riddle which when answered, the author stated, would eventually reveal the killer's name.

[6] In an unusual request, the letters also demanded the answers to the riddles be printed on front page of the Baytown Sun.