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Boil water notice for East Olean after water main break

By JIM ECKSTROM jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com

August 18, 2026

OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...

Can all US hospitals safely treat Ebola?

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Can all US hospitals safely treat Ebola?

MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer

Oct 13, 2014

The idea that all U.S. hospitals may not be able to safely treat Ebola patients seemed to find more acceptance Monday as a second federal official sug...

Bishops say gays have gifts to offer church

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Bishops say gays have gifts to offer church

NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press

Oct 13, 2014

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic bishops showed unprecedented openness Monday to accepting the real lives of many Catholics today, saying gays had gifts t...

Angry crowd charges Hong Kong protest barricades

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Angry crowd charges Hong Kong protest barricades

SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press

Oct 13, 2014

HONG KONG (AP) — A mob of masked men opposed to Hong Kong's pro-democracy demonstrators led an apparently coordinated assault on the protest zone in t...

Frenchman Tirole wins Nobel economics prize

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Frenchman Tirole wins Nobel economics prize

KARL RITTER, Associated Press NATHALIE ROTHSCHILD, Associated Press

Oct 13, 2014

STOCKHOLM (AP) — French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for research on market regulation that has helped policymakers ...

Where’s Kim? Absent leader stirs wild speculation

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Where’s Kim? Absent leader stirs wild speculation

FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press

Oct 13, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Where is Kim Jong Un? He's nowhere to be seen, and yet ... he's everywhere. From "Saturday Night Live" spoofs to the wild th...

Psychologist says Pistorius is ‘broken man’

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Psychologist says Pistorius is ‘broken man’

CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press GERALD IMRAY, Associated Press

Oct 13, 2014

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius is a "broken man" after killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and has already suffered emotionally and fina...

Health care workers monitored after Ebola case

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Health care workers monitored after Ebola case

NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press

Oct 13, 2014

DALLAS (AP) — Health officials are intensifying the monitoring of hospital workers who provided care to the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in...

Clinton, Christie lend clout to Pennsylvania race

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Clinton, Christie lend clout to Pennsylvania race

MARC LEVY, Associated Press KEN THOMAS, Associated Press

Oct 10, 2014

WAYNE, Pa. (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made dueling pitches Thursday in Pennsylvania's ...

US adds extra level of airport screening for Ebola

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US adds extra level of airport screening for Ebola

LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer

Oct 09, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama calls it a "belt and suspenders" approach — an extra level of screening at five major U.S. airports to try to...

Century-old time capsule unsealed in New York

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Century-old time capsule unsealed in New York

Verena Dobnik

Oct 09, 2014

NEW YORK (AP) — A century-old time capsule, filled mostly with documents by long-gone Wall Street businessmen celebrating New York as a commercial hub...

AP PHOTOS: Lunar eclipse in Asia and the Americas

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AP PHOTOS: Lunar eclipse in Asia and the Americas

Oct 09, 2014

TOKYO (AP) — Evening viewers in much of Asia and early risers in parts of the Americas were treated to a stunning lunar eclipse on Wednesday, though c...

New at the pot shop: Milder marijuana for novices

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New at the pot shop: Milder marijuana for novices

Kristen Wyatt

Oct 09, 2014

DENVER (AP) — Recreational marijuana sellers are reaching out to novice cannabis users with a raft of edible products that impart a milder buzz and ma...

US, allies chafing at Turkish inaction on Syria

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US, allies chafing at Turkish inaction on Syria

Desmond Butler

Oct 09, 2014

ISTANBUL (AP) — As U.S. generals and Secretary of State John Kerry warn that a strategic Syrian border town could fall to Islamic State militants, the...

Gay marriage hopes dashed after US justice’s order

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Gay marriage hopes dashed after US justice’s order

KIMBERLY PIERCEALL, Associated Press

Oct 08, 2014

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Same-sex couples who lined up to get married in Idaho and made plans to obtain wedding licenses in Las Vegas had their hopes dashed W...

Report: Federal budget deficit falls to $486B

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Report: Federal budget deficit falls to $486B

ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press

Oct 08, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government's budget deficit has fallen to $486 billion, the smallest pool of red ink of President Barack Obama's six-yea...

Obama, military assess Islamic State strategy

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Obama, military assess Islamic State strategy

JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press

Oct 08, 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Islamic State group holding its own in Iraq and Syria, President Barack Obama is huddling with the top U.S. military brass ...

Airstrikes push jihadists back in Syrian town

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Airstrikes push jihadists back in Syrian town

LEFTERIS PITARAKIS, Associated Press BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press

Oct 08, 2014

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — New U.S.-led airstrikes near the Syrian border town of Kobani have helped Kurdish fighters push back the Islamic State grou...

3 win chemistry Nobel for super-zoom microscopes

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3 win chemistry Nobel for super-zoom microscopes

MALCOLM RITTER, Associated Press KARL RITTER, Associated Press

Oct 08, 2014

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three researchers won a Nobel Prize on Wednesday for giving microscopes much sharper vision than was thought possible, letting scient...

1st Ebola patient diagnosed in the US has died

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1st Ebola patient diagnosed in the US has died

NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press

Oct 08, 2014

DALLAS (AP) — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died in a Dallas hospital Wednesday, a little more than a week after his illness ...

Often pesky beavers put to work restoring streams

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Often pesky beavers put to work restoring streams

PHUONG LE, Associated Press

Oct 07, 2014

ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — In a heavily irrigated Washington valley where fish, crops and people often compete for water, biologists are turning to one ...