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Simons family selling Journal-World Ogden Newspapers to take ownership this summer Staff Reports
Nearly 125 years of Lawrence newspaper history will end later this year when the Simons family, owner of the Journal-World, completes the paper’s sale to Ogden Newspapers Inc., a family-owned company based
in Wheeling, W.Va. The pending transaction was announced to Journal-World department leaders Friday morning by Dolph C. Simons Jr., editor of the Journal-World and chairman of The World Company, which owns the newspaper. His sons, Dan, president of World’s
digital division, and Dolph III, president of its newspapers division, took part in the session, after which the three leaders met with all staff members to tell them of the company’s plan. “In today’s business environment it is becoming increasingly difficult for a stand-alone, family-owned
daily newspaper to compete and provide the product owners desire,” said Dolph Simons Jr. “This being the case and in the best interests of Lawrence, Journal-World readers and our employees, Journal-World owners have decided to sell the JournalWorld to the Ogden Nutting family, owners of Ogden Newspapers Inc.” Please see SIMONS, page 2A
A look at Ogden Newspapers and its media holdings Staff Reports
Ogden Newspapers Inc. has signed a deal to purchase the Lawrence Journal-World. Here’s a look at the company and its holdings.
Ogden Newspapers Inc. is a family-owned, diversified media company based in Wheeling, W.Va. Following is a list of company newspapers and other assets. Please see OGDEN, page 2A
Lawmakers can’t agree on school funding
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Constitutional amendment in play; no consensus on immediate solution By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Topeka — After two days of joint hearings, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees could not arrive at any consensus about how the Legislature should respond to a Kansas Supreme Court ruling that threatens to shut down the public school
system in just two weeks. Instead, both committees voted separately to merely send the minutes and testimony of their hearings to their respective budget committees for consideration when the full Legislature returns for a special session next week. Please see SCHOOL, page 2A
Defendant testifies woman consented in Haskell rape trial Nick Krug/Journal-World Photos
TEN-YEAR-OLD “NINJAS” JOSEPHINE DEE, LEFT, ARABELLA HAIGH-WILSEY AND EVA SENGER STAND AWARE AND READY as they listen to instructions during The Go Ninja Go Camp Friday at the Lawrence Arts Center. Young ninja warriors were inducted into the “Shinobi Clan” Friday, at the culmination of the camp, which introduced kids to the various cultural elements of the ninja. AT LEFT: A gathering of young ninjas raise their belts as they are inducted into the Clan during The Go Ninja Go camp. TOP PHOTO: Nine-year-old Prairie Mulligan, left, squares off in a foam nunchaku battle with Eva Senger, 10, during the camp Friday.
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One of two former Haskell Indian Nations University students accused of rape told jurors on Friday that the woman accusing them willingly engaged in sex acts with them. The defendant, age 20, said the woman entered the dormitory room he shared with the second suspect, age 21, in the early-morning hours of Nov.
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15, 2014. The woman, the two men and several others had been drinking and partying the night before and into that morning, he said. In the dormitory room, the 20-year-old defendant testified, the woman engaged in a sex act with him before moving to the other man’s bed. At that point, the 20-year-old said he left the room to allow them some privacy.
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