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The Evansville Courier & Press is a local newspaper in Evansville,Indiana. The Evansville Courier & Press serves 58,098 daily and 86,201 Sunday readers in 30 counties in Indiana,Illinois,and Kentucky. The Evansville Courier was founded in 1845 by William Newton,a young attorney. Its first issue was printed two years before the city had a charter. The Evansville Press was founded in 1906 by Edward W. Scripps as an afternoon daily.Both papers were separate and fierce competitors until 1937,when the Evansville Press was flooded and the Evansville Courier agreed to print their competitor's paper. In 1938,the two papers formed a joint operating agreement to handle business affairs. The two papers retained separate staffs and editorial policies,but published a joint Sunday edition with two editorial pages from the two papers.