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United High School (Laredo, Texas)
United High School is a public high school located in the northern portion of Laredo, Texas, United States, and is a part of the United Independent School District. A new campus opened on August 24, 2009, for the 2009-2010 school year to alleviate overcrowding at the old campus. Freshman students have been placed in a new campus right next to the main campus. It is the most populated school in Laredo. Attendance boundary Communities within the United High boundary include portions of Laredo and the following census-designated places: * Bonanza Hills * Botines * Four Points * La Moca Ranch * Los Corralitos * Los Minerales * Los Huisaches * Los Veteranos II * Ranchos Penitas West * Sunset Acres Feeder schools Feeder middle schools include Elias Herrera Middle School and George Washington Middle School. Magnet school United High School also houses the United Engineering & Technology Magnet, which has a robotics program. "The Protected School" The school was built to ...
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United High School may refer to: *Beaumont United High School in Beaumont, Texas *United High School (Laredo, Texas) in Laredo, Texas *United High School (Ohio) in Hanoverton, Ohio — sometimes referred to as "United Local High School" * United Junior/Senior High School (Pennsylvania) in Armagh, Pennsylvania * United Senior High School (Illinois) in Monmouth, Illinois — sometimes still labeled as "United Junior/Senior High School" *United Township High School United Township High School, also known as UTHS or UT, is a public four-year high school located in East Moline, Illinois, a city in Rock Island County, in the United States. The school is the only public high school in the city of East Moline, ...
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Los Veteranos II, Texas
Los Veteranos II is a census-designated place (CDP) in Webb County, Texas, United States. This was a new CDP formed from parts of the Botines CDP prior to the 2010 census. The population was 11 at the 2020 census. It is one of several colonias in the county. Geography Los Veteranos II is located at (27.771135, -99.443309). The CDP has a total area of , all land. Education Residents are in the United Independent School District United Independent School District is a school district headquartered in Laredo, Texas. History The district was created in 1961 via the consolidation of the former Cactus, Johnson, and Nye school districts. The "Big Three" involved in the est .... Zoned schools include: San Isidro Elementary School, Elias Herrera Middle School, United High School. The designated community college for Webb County is Laredo Community College. References {{authority control Census-designated places in Webb County, Texas Census-designated places in Texas< ...
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High Schools In Laredo, Texas
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Marco Antonio Flores
Marco Antonio Flores (March 23, 1937 – July 26, 2013) was a Guatemalan author, poet, essayist, journalist and professor. His published works include the collections of poetry ''La voz acumulada'' (1964), ''Muros de luz'' (1968), ''La derrota'' (1972), ''Persistencia de la memoria'' (1992), ''Crónica de los años de fuego'' (1993), ''Un ciego fuego en el alma'' (1995), ''Reunión, Poesía completa, Volumen I'' (1992) and ''Volumen II'' (2000) as well as ''Poesía escogida'' (1998). His novels include ''Los compañeros'' (1976), ''En el filo'' (1993), ''Los muchachos de antes'' (1996), ''Las batallas perdidas'' (1999), ''La siguamonta'' (1993) and ''Cuentos completos'' (1999). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Flores, Marco Antonio 1937 births 2013 deaths 20th-century Guatemalan poets 20th-century male writers Guatemalan male poets Guatemalan novelists Male novelists Guatemalan male short story writers Guatemalan short story writers 20th-century novelists 20th-century sh ...
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Edgar Valdez Villareal
Edgar Valdez Villarreal (born August 11, 1973), also known as La Barbie ("The Barbie"), is a Mexican-American former drug lord and high-ranking lieutenant of the now-disbanded Beltrán Leyva Cartel. Valdez is serving a 49-year prison sentence at USP Coleman II in Florida. Valdez worked for several years as a Mexican cartel A drug cartel is any criminal organization with the intention of supplying drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. The term was applied when the ... lieutenant alongside nephew Fernando Valdez, before rising to a leadership position in an enforcement squad called Los Negros. Following the death of cartel boss Arturo Beltrán Leyva in late 2009, Valdez fought a protracted gang war for control of the cartel resulting in over 150 deaths. He employed techniques such as videotaped torture and decapitation. On August 30, 2010, he was arrested by Federal Police ...
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Laredo, TX
Laredo ( ; ) is a city in and the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Laredo has the distinction of flying seven flags (the flag of the former Republic of the Rio Grande, which is now the flag of the city, in addition to the Six Flags of Texas). Founded in 1755, Laredo grew from a village to the capital of the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande to the largest inland port on the Mexican border. Laredo's economy is primarily based on international trade with the United States largest trading partner Mexico, and as a major hub for three areas of transportation: land, rail, and air cargo. The city is on the southern end of I-35, which connects manufacturers in northern Mexico through Interstate 35 as a major route for trade throughout the U.S. It has four international bridges and one railway bridge. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 236,091, ma ...
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Hearst Corporation
Hearst Communications, Inc., often referred to simply as Hearst, is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Hearst owns newspapers, magazines, television channels, and television stations, including the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', the ''Houston Chronicle'', '' Cosmopolitan'' and ''Esquire''. It owns 50% of the A&E Networks cable network group and 20% of the sports cable network group ESPN, both in partnership with The Walt Disney Company. The conglomerate also owns several business-information companies, including Fitch Ratings and First Databank. The company was founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, and the Hearst family remains involved in its ownership and management. History The formative years In 1880, George Hearst, mining entrepreneur and U.S. senator, bought the '' San Francisco Daily Examiner.'' In 1887, he turned the ''Examiner'' over to his s ...
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Laredo Morning Times
The ''Laredo Morning Times'' is a daily newspaper publication based in Laredo, Texas, USA. It is owned by the Hearst Corporation Hearst Communications, Inc., often referred to simply as Hearst, is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Hearst owns newspapers, magazines, telev .... References *Odie Arambula, ''Laredo Morning Times'', June 14, 2006. External links ''Laredo Morning Times''Official mobile websiteHearst subsidiary profile of the ''Laredo Morning Times''''Zapata Times'' ...
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Ana Rodriguez (Miss Texas USA)
Ana Christina Rodriguez (born January 20, 1986) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Laredo, Texas. On her fifth attempt at the statewide title, she was crowned Miss Texas USA 2011 and went on to be named third runner-up to Miss USA 2011. Pageant career Early years Rodriguez first entered the Miss USA system of pageants in 2006. She was chosen as Miss Laredo USA and competed for the Miss Texas USA 2007 title, placing in the top 16 finalists and voted "Miss Congeniality" by her fellow contestants on June 25, 2006. She won the Miss Webb County USA crown in 2007 and competed for the Miss Texas USA 2008 title where she was named second runner-up on July 1, 2007. The following year she was named Miss Port Laredo USA and competed for the Miss Texas USA 2009 title where she was named second runner-up on June 29, 2008. In 2009, competing as Miss Central Texas USA, Rodriguez was named first runner-up at the Miss Texas USA 2010 competition on September 6, 2009. Miss Texas USA ...
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Steve Asmussen
Steven Mark Asmussen (born November 18, 1965) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. The leading trainer in North America by wins, he is a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2016. His horses have won the Breeders' Cup Classic, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, Travers Stakes, Breeders' Cup Distaff, Kentucky Oaks and Dubai World Cup. Background Asmussen was born in Gettysburg, South Dakota, then moved to Laredo, Texas at age two. His father, Keith, is a retired jockey and his mother Marilyn is a trainer who became the first woman to win a major quarter horse race with Vespero in the 1978 Kansas Futurity. They now operate El Primero Training Center and the Asmussen Horse Center, a breeding and sales operation, both in Laredo. The family was close-knit; Asmussen's grandmother, Helen M. Asmussen, died at the age of eighty-three, on Mother's Day, 2007. Asmussen attended her ...
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Sunset Acres, Texas
Sunset Acres is a census-designated place (CDP) in Webb County, Texas, United States. This was a new CDP formed from parts of the Botines CDP prior to the 2010 census with a population of 23. It is one of several colonias in the county. Geography Sunset Acres is located at (27.794165, -99.456603). Education Residents are in the United Independent School District. Zoned schools include: San Isidro Elementary School, Elias Herrera Middle School, United High School. The designated community college for Webb County is Laredo Community College Laredo College (LC) is a public community college in Laredo, Texas. Founded as Laredo Junior College in 1947, it is part of the Laredo Independent School District. As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of LC includes the .... References {{authority control Census-designated places in Webb County, Texas Census-designated places in Texas ...
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