C-R shoots past Salamanca for IAABO sweep
Local Sports, Sports
December 29, 2025
Rebels top SHS 74-38; OHS, O-E, Bradford all win ALLEGANY — The Cuba-Rushford boys basketball team entered the 50th annual Joe DeCerbo Holiday Showcase with an unbeaten record (7-0) and an average margin of victory of 32.6 points. Incredibly, the Rebels only outdid themselves at the former IAABO Tou...
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Otto-Eldred, Port A girls hold off Salamanca, Portville
Local Sports, Sports
December 29, 2025
ALLEGANY — In the closest matchup of the opening day of the Joe DeCerbo Holiday (IAABO) Showcase, the Salamanca girls basketball team could not hold o...
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Angelina Napoleon meet & greet slated for Friday
Local Sports, Sports
December 29, 2025
OLEAN — In the aftermath of her spectacular performance at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in which she placed ninth overall a...
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Local & Social
‘Hemp house’ project kicks off new support for NYS hemp
Local News, News, NY State News
By CAITLIN HAYES Cornell Chronicle 
Dec 29, 2025
Builder Jeff Gagnon says a space that’s been insulated with hemp materials stays warm in winter, cool in summer, emits no toxins and is as quiet as sn...
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Alfred State had plenty to cheer for in 2025
Local News, News
Dec 29, 2025
ALFRED — New honors, new partnerships and new construction gave Alfred State College plenty to cheer for in 2025. Carnegie and US News & World Report ...
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Police reports 12/29/25
Crime, Local News
Dec 29, 2025
Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office FREEDOM — Brandon Davis, 25, of Freedom, was charged at 2 p.m. Dec. 19 with third-degree criminal possession of a ...
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Crime and Courts
Police reports 12/24/25
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Dec 25, 2025
Allegany County Sheriff's Office BELMONT — Jorge Lopez-Fernandez, no age provided, of Lockport, was charged Monday with second-degree assault, a class...
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Ellicottville man sentenced for coercing women into prostitution
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
By BOB CLARK bclark@oleantimesherald.com 
Dec 19, 2025
BUFFALO -- An Ellicottville man will spend more than seven years in federal prison for coercing women into prostitution. U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiaco...
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Bruce Blakeman begins to make his case for governor
Commentary, Opinion
By CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
December 29, 2025
ALBANY (TNS) — In a recent Siena Research Institute poll, 80% of Upstate New Yorkers said they didn't know Bruce Blakeman enough to have an opinion ab...
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Experimenting on dogs is getting harder to defend
Commentary, Opinion
By F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
December 28, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is comin...
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$12B payout to farmers a tariff-based disaster
Commentary, Opinion
December 28, 2025
If President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade wars are so great for the American economy, then why does he have to shell out, as he did this month, $1...
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