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AL BANY — Sen. Catharine M. Young co-sponsored a Senate resolution celebrating the life, and mourned the death, of Buffalo Bills owner and Western New...

Ralph Wilson, founder and only owner the Buffalo Bills football team has ever known, is dead. I’d had nearly 24 hours to process this news, yet, as a ...

The decade was the 1960s and at a home in a Twin Tiers’ community lived an older woman and her son, who had Down syndrome. A sad, yet common aspect of...

A celebrity death hoax with ties to the Twin Tiers went too far. Similar fake reports have been a part of stardom since celebrities have existed. Just...

DELMAR — The leaders of the two largest statewide family founded groups supporting people with disabilities are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make g...

Isn’t it interesting how small items can hold so much personal value for a time only to become lost to memory? Sometimes it’s a special place, a child...

Secretary of State John Kerry seems like he’s setting up a shotgun peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Although the reluctant couple protests, mo...

A blizzard-like snow flurry had just set in and temperatures were just barely above 10 degrees during a visit to Allegany-Limestone Elementary School ...

As many of you may already know, I’m the new Allegany County reporter for the Olean Times Herald. What you may not be aware of is that I had rarely se...

Perhaps it all could be summed up by the old saying, “You win some, you lose some.” That’s what was running through my mind this week when I read abou...

It’s June, when one can be forgiven for thinking we live in the United States of LGBTQIA2S+. Old Glory is, at best, supplemented with, and sometimes s...

Hundreds of Canadian wildfires that blanketed New York state and much of Pennsylvania in acrid smoke this week were started by careless humans, in som...

June is an exciting time as it marks the arrival of summer, but it is also Dairy Month. There’s nothing better than finding a noble excuse to enjoy de...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — When Ukraine’s U.N. ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya addressed a special Security Council session on Tuesday about the destruction of ...

In an interview with the Financial Times, the longtime Washington political analyst Charlie Cook noted that President Joe Biden’s job approval rating ...