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Prince, the famous musician and performer, spun the spotlight onto opioids with his death on April 21 from an apparent overdose of painkillers. He was...

The SPCA of Cattaraugus County held a fundraiser offering books, baked goods and other useful items at the Olean Center Mall during the month of April...

(TNS) A decade ago, the dictionary people at Merriam-Webster performed a great public service by bestowing its word of the year award to “truthiness.”...

Editor’s Note: The following submission was offered as a collaborative effort by students in the Policy and Organization class at Jamestown Community ...

What does it say about our political process, and the judgment of the American electorate, that the likely nominees of the two major political parties...

(TNS) Every election brings new questions about the qualities and character of national leadership, in the United States and abroad. In the 2008 presi...

(TNS) President Obama is pursuing two different strategies in two halves of Syria. One is working; the other is not. He’s making progress in eastern S...

(TNS) The tiger is an awesome beast. I don’t use “awesome” here in the modern, informal sense that we apply casually to anything that we think is extr...

(TNS) The greatest threat to American security is something most Americans never think of. President Barack Obama touched on it in his speech to the E...

The rites of the graduation are commencing. In gyms, auditoriums and grassy quads, high school and college graduates will be treated, or subjected, to...

(Authors' disclosure: Nat Hentoff is a former board member of both the national ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union. Nick Hentoff, a former bo...

The Legacy of the 1994 Crime Bill (OTH 4/15) that resulted in prison terms and more unemployment for half of the black communities is liken to a chron...

On Friday, April 15, AVX Ceramics/Olean Advanced Products plant manager John Monahan announced to the Olean workers that the Olean plant will be closi...

(TNS) The remarkable durability of non-establishment candidates — Sanders, Trump — in this year’s presidential race may reflect the widely held theory...

Here are three things to know about the non-aggression pact between Ted Cruz and John Kasich, who have now vowed to work together to defeat Donald Tru...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon misled Congress with inaccurate and vague information about sexual assault cases that portrayed civilian law enforcemen...

(TNS) The fact that we’ve reached a point where citizens can feasibly debate whether the leading candidate for the presidential nomination of one of o...

Here are five reasons to vote for Bernie Sanders in Tuesday’s presidential primary. 1. He is the candidate least likely to send Americans into more wa...