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One of the faces on Capitol Hill of the opposition to the Trump administration, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, has endorsed fellow Democ...

Dear Sgt. Hosbrook, though you are my ancestor, I thought it only fitting and proper to address you by your rank and title in that great war for indep...

The question of illegal immigrants continues to be a controversial and divisive topic. Let’s try to deal in facts and reality. First, the issue became...

Regarding Tuesday’s editorial in the Olean Times Herald, “US Vetting System Already Works,” this is just another ploy by Democrats in California tryin...

(TNS) I used to help out at an after-school cooking program where the kids happened to be mostly students of color. One week the regular instructor wa...

The Olean Public Library is planning an exhibit during the month of November to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first Armistice Day and the G...

As the world remembers Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his assassination, several community members provided thoughts on ho...

Just as religious leaders across the nation supported Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his movement for equal rights and justice for minorities, Olean’s ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Jennifer Emejulu went to see "Black Panther," the New Jersey resident didn't feel like wearing any of the traditional Nigerian cl...

From jail time for trash-talking America to local women making WAVES, from Bonnies passing up Team USA tryouts to a Temple of Doom for the Bonnies, he...

Nancy Pelosi, minority leader in the House of Representatives, the epitome of a San Francisco liberal, treated America to an eight-hour lecture Feb. 7...

Already, the Trump administration is achieving great victories. Rural Americans, who voted for Donald Trump in record numbers, are being rewarded for ...

OLEAN — There were a few moments of uncertainty at the beginning of Sunday’s 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration — would Dr. Beverly Twitty-Terrie...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed on Tuesday outlined a series of legislative issues he hopes to address in 2018, building on the Republican success with the America...

When Donald Trump won a surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election, he did so largely because rural counties voted overwhelmingly in favor of ...

Christmas is the most commercially successful holiday in the United States. The second-most successful? Halloween. And with young people and adults se...

Former Olean Times Herald printer Howard “Sparky” Linderman of Hinsdale, who drops in on us from time to time, left a copy of a newspaper clipping tha...

Given the renewed public interest that Ken Burns' “The Vietnam War” has generated, now seems like an ideal time to revisit some of the lessons of that...