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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...
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Sep 24, 2026
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it has cut off payments to 11 providers suspected of fraudulently billing $3.4 billion to Medic...
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Sep 24, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Sam Forstag recently joined a text chain to better keep up with a few friends. There’s nothing unusual about that, except Forstag’s t...
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Sep 23, 2026
It took 10 minutes to erase Johnstown, Pennsylvania. On May 31, 1889, a wall of water tore down the Little Conemaugh Valley and killed more than 2,200...
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Sep 23, 2026
My father, John H. Spako, spent much of his life caring for other people. He is a veteran, and after serving his country he proudly spent more than 20...
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Sep 22, 2026
Gasoline prices aren’t the only thing California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to raise. Newsom recently put out a release touting California’s economic gro...
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Sep 22, 2026
With U.S. midterm elections fast approaching, Americans of all political persuasions are newly questioning technology giants about the role of artific...
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Sep 22, 2026
CHICAGO (TNS) — As of last Friday, a quarter century has elapsed since the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) became law. At the begi...
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Sep 21, 2026
We hear a lot of talk these days about the relative merits of capitalism and socialism since, for some reason, Marxism is back in fashion in certain (...
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Sep 21, 2026
I was saddened to hear of the passing of Father Dominic Monti; the Olean Times Herald had a very nice writeup on Thursday regarding his passing. The r...
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Sep 21, 2026
The latest moves by Kaleida Health to eliminate long-term care and not negotiate in good faith with LECOM Health regarding the former Bradford (Pa.) R...
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Sep 21, 2026
Not too long ago, Big Tech CEOs were in a high-speed race to be first to advance artificial intelligence. Now they are having second thoughts. The tec...
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Sep 18, 2026
In the classic novel, Don Quixote sees monsters with menacing arms on the horizon. They were harmless windmills, but he tilted his lance toward them a...
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Sep 18, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would let qualifying married couples draw from the existing Child Care and Develop...
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Sep 18, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security claimed to have saved $10.5 billion through cost-cutting measures led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Effi...
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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...
