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(TNS) Hillary Clinton said last week that she was ready to move on from the Benghazi incident of 2012, which happened during her watch as secretary of...

MOTHERWELL, Scotland (AP) — Cooling towers, blast furnaces and coking coal. The grit and humor of steelworkers heading to early-morning shifts. That w...

(TNS) It is easy to feel comfortable with a court decision that supports the prosecution of someone found to have illegal drugs on his person. That su...

We’d just spent a wonderful afternoon Saturday at Kinzua Bridge, enjoying a clear and beautiful day. If I have been to the bridge before, it would hav...

(TNS) As the Middle East devours itself, leaving behind the worst human devastation since World War II, an international movement seeks to delegitimiz...

(TNS) The digital revolution was supposed to create an age of empowered microentrepreneurship, with power devolving to the masses. Instead, we’ve got ...

(TNS) Terrorism is generally defined as the use of violence against random innocents with the intent to generate fear and emotions that further the te...

A news item recently detailed the groundbreaking for a new track at the Oswayo Valley School District in Shinglehouse, Pa. The track is being financed...

(TNS) If, for some perverse reason, liberals want to throw the presidential election, they should go right on denouncing Donald Trump as a “populist.”...

(TNS) Anger is clearly the buzzword of the 2016 presidential campaign, especially on the GOP side of the aisle. Google the word with Republican and, l...

For those unacquainted with Odosagih Bible Conference in Machias, it is located on Lime Lake and offers year-round programming for retreats and confer...

For well over a year, my only mental picture of Tina Wagoner was a police mugshot from covering her original child sex-abuse indictment. She looked ha...

This regards Jay Ambrose’s column in the May 22 edition of the Olean Times Herald concerning medical errors killing about 250,000 Americans each year....

(TNS) Are we really going to respond to the threat of Islamic terrorism by disarming Americans? In the wake of the attack in Orlando, Fla., Hillary Cl...

(TNS) E ven before our two-party system coughed up the most disliked presidential nominees in modern polling history, Canada had firmly established it...

(TNS) I am a “gun nut.” Why? Because I own more than one. I know that’s what some of you think, because you have told me so, usually behind a screen n...

Several people joined those in the LGBT community Wednesday, standing in the rain with candles and rainbow-colored signs in Olean’s Lincoln Park, for ...

Several people joined those in the LGBT community Wednesday, standing in the rain with candles and rainbow-colored signs in Olean’s Lincoln Park, for ...