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On Jan. 29 the Obama administration confirmed “Hillary Clinton’s home server contained closely guarded secrets.” There were 22 emails containing mater...

We are writing this in response to the unexpected, overwhelming care we received from nearby witnesses to our bizarre, extraordinary accident at an Ol...

Good grief, what was the city of Olean thinking? Does no one in authority have a sense of design? Recently, I took note of the new street lights on No...

(TNS) In 1987, the Partnership for a Drug-Free America aired a public service announcement that went on to become a classic of modern pop culture. It ...

While President Obama is playing golf on Martha's Vineyard, disinterred coffins are floating down the streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. More than 20,...

Perhaps, if Mayor Bill Aiello has anything to say about it, the Gus Macker street basketball tournament, can return to Olean. All summer, the word was...

Let’s count the ways in which the Republican Party’s nominee for president, Donald Trump, runs afoul of the expectations of the 18th century founders ...

Her email response was somewhat rattling. Oh, no. What had I done? For a range of reasons — from being a former student to now being a professional jo...

When I came home June 28, 2014, I knew life would bring changes, experiences different from what I’d known living in the Midwest. Turning onto Temple ...

(TNS) Maybe our society should congratulate itself occasionally on how much progress it’s made in the last half-century toward equality and individual...

WASHINGTON — For America's wealthiest families, the presidential campaign presents a stark choice: A big tax increase if Hillary Clinton wins the elec...

Does the U.S. Justice Department have a form template it uses when reporting on its civil rights investigations of police departments? It sure seems l...

(TNS) Milwaukee is in flames. Though the name of the city has changed, the recipe for chaos is the same. Shots are fired. Bullets ignite the anger of ...

Donald Trump says if he loses the presidential election, it will have been “rigged.” He’s been using the word for months. During the Florida primary i...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — There may have been a time, when athletes smoked pipes, competed in everyday clothes and didn't tweet sponsored messages, a time...

(TNS) To learn what most endangers national parks, on the occasion this month of the National Park Service’s 100th birthday, look no farther than Moja...

Washington experts have been frequently wrong about the Affordable Care Act. They projected far more enrollees in ACA exchanges than materialized. The...

On Wednesday Aug. 10, for the first time in almost 40 years, the procedure for replacing a vacancy on the Cattaraugus County Legislature was not honor...