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No amount of advice, photographs or premonition could have prepared me for driving the rural roads of Western Ireland — or the absolute beauty of the ...

(TNS) While families prepare for 49 funerals in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shootings, our leaders and our nation play blame games. Instead, we ...

(TNS) Republican candidates have a model to emulate as they struggle with growing concerns that Donald Trump could drag down the party in November: th...

(TNS) For years, Hillary Clinton’s closest friends said that she would be better positioned to win the presidency if she embraced the historic nature ...

(TNS) Three divisive words intertwined to stitch together the deadliest mass shooting in United States history: Guns, gays and terrorism. A perfect st...

Starting in the late 1800s state and federal legislatures began delegating their sovereign, eminent-domain, police powers to oil and gas pipeline comp...

(TNS) Donald Trump will win the 2016 presidential election. Not “might” win. Not “could win under the following circumstances.” He’s going to win as s...

(TNS) Baylor University brought Art Briles, Kenneth Starr and Sam Ukwuachu to campus for the same purpose: To help raise the national profile of the r...

How would you feel if somebody moved into your house, sectioned-off half of your rooms and refused to pay rent? Then he welcomed his friends, took ove...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie received 26 recommendations Friday from the Business Regulat...

I am a retired radiologist and was mostly hospital-based in my 30 years of active practice. Radiologists are closely involved in most hospital patient...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved synthetically modified organism (SMO) salmon for human consumption last November. This is the first tim...

(TNS) Gary Johnson and Bill Weld may be the Ralph Naders of 2016, though it’s not clear whether the casualty would be Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton....

(TNS) I have followed news of Prince's death this spring with a mix of anger and insight. While the cause is still under investigation, officials susp...

The recent announcement that Upper Allegheny Health System will become part of the Kaleida network represents a win for healthcare in Olean and Bradfo...

“The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.” — Andy Rooney June is Elder Abuse Awareness Month, an opportunity to share crit...

Given that Upper Allegheny Health System and Kaleida Health have already partnered on initiatives to enhance health care services for the Twin Tiers, ...

Rather than “make a few bucks at auction” for several properties in the city of Olean, Cattaraugus County agreed to transfer them to the city’s contro...