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The topic of suicide is so painful and personal, that it’s not often we hear it spoken of publicly. But recent events that touched Pastor Dan Todd of ...

OLEAN — The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels will spend Friday praying for the victims of clergy sexual abuse, as well as the Catholic Diocese of Bu...

ALBANY (AP) — New York and New Jersey launched new investigations into the Roman Catholic Church's handling of clergy sex abuse allegations Thursday a...

The Allegany County Department of Health has announced the clinic schedule for September. • Immunization Clinics, by appointment only, will be in Belm...

Marcia Kelly gave us an update a couple days ago after our State & Union about Dick Marcus knowing the Olean-born poet Robert Lax and Lax’s good frien...

(TNS) Pope Francis stands accused of putting his protective wing around a known abuser. He has chosen to neither confirm nor deny the charges. That is...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The sign outside St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Route 219 started as a temporary sign — 35 years ago. Its messages have conveyed news a...

ALLEGANY — Richard and Barbara Sandberg of Valley View Drive, Allegany will have 60th wedding anniversary luncheon Sunday at Trinity United Methodist ...

(TNS) “I don’t think this is some massive, massive crisis,” said Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., in a statement th...

OLEAN — A gray, wet morning broke into blue skies and sunshine just in time for Fresh Fire USA to hold its mass feeding Saturday afternoon at War Vete...

More than 1,300 pages representing years of pain, darkness and horror were released by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tuesday, in the statewide grand ...

OLEAN — For the past seven years, kids from the Olean area have received backpacks filled with school supplies, while being treated to a barbecue and ...

OLEAN — The Very Rev. Gregory Dobson sat on the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels’ rectory porch Wednesday morning, attempting to pack up — and throw...

OLEAN — It will be at least another two weeks before Genesis House and St. John’s Church officials know if they will be allowed to use a former conven...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — A letter condemning same-sex marriage as blasphemous and a perversion was included recently in the church bulletin at St. Eulalia C...

We’ve shared a couple of “small world” stories recently, from area folks who have bumped into someone from home while traveling a great distance from ...

OLEAN — Beginning in 1938, the Mahrajan — Lebanese for festival — is one of the longest running in Olean. St. Joseph’s Maronite Catholic Church, locat...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The monthly meeting of the Ellicottville Historical Society is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday. The guest speaker is the Rev. Ron Mierz...