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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The lifting of crippling international sanctions linked to Iran's nuclear program and the flurry of diplomacy that ...

If a severe snowstorm, or days of continuous snow, leaves plowed snow, whatever the amount, on the North Union Street median and on traffic circles, c...

GAZIANTEP, Turkey (AP) — Mohammed Saad, a Syrian activist, was imprisoned by the Islamic State group, hung by his arms and beaten regularly. Then one ...

(TNS) WASHINGTON — So once again the nation’s politicians, backed by the media, are about to turn the caucuses of a rural state into a significant bar...

(TNS) “I‘ve never felt more uncomfortable than I do today,” ex-CIA official Jack Devine remarked recently in a radio interview. “We’re all vulnerable....

(TNS) Last week, the same edition of my local newspaper reported good news and bad news for animals. First, the good news: The Ringling Brothers Barnu...

When we crave food, why is it always something chocolate or sweet, salty or high in fat or calories? Why don’t we crave broccoli or steamed carrots? W...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Hoping to diminish Denmark's appeal to migrants, the country's government plans to force asylum-seekers to hand over any va...

The first words out of my mother’s mouth the other morning, “We can’t find Oscar,” were said with maternal concern. The family cat is viewed as anothe...

THUMBS UP: With the first legitimate snowfall of the year, the city of Olean was able to test whether snow plowing would be a problem for the new Nort...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — In the course of six years without a major terrorist attack, Indonesia had grown more and more confident that it had stayed ...

(TNS) Barrack Obama arrived at Columbia University too late to encounter professor Richard Hofstadter personally. But the great historian’s mark was c...

Jeff Belt, co-chairman of the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council and chief executive officer of Sol Epoxy Inc. in Olean, says he l...

We talked recently to a senior Republican who has devoted his career to conservative candidates and principles. Who would he vote for, given a choice ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York's newspapers: The Gloversville Leader-Herald on medical marijua...

In 2011, at an American Society of Magazine Editors awards ceremony, Jann Wenner waxed nostalgic about the birth of New Journalism in the 1960s. "From...

(TNS) President Barack Obama seems exhausted, and for good reason. With the success of the Paris conference, he may now add significant action on clim...

LOUDONVILLE — The New York State Index of Consumer Sentiment in December stood at 85.2, up 2.7 points from the last measurement in September 2015, acc...