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(TNS) Don’t put yourself in harm’s way. That would have been the best advice President Barack Obama could have given to Americans last week when he an...

(TNS) Let’s start at a place where consensus is easy: No one that I know of is arguing that anyone should be prohibited from displaying the South’s mo...

In the classic John Ford-directed Western, “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,” John Wayne’s character allows the Southerners in his U.S. Cavalry troop to hono...

They poach officers from nearby police departments. They entice recruits by playing up the drama and heroism of policing through video close-ups of fl...

(TNS) The Vatican’s new papal encyclical on the environment is a highly political discussion of the theology of the environment. Pope Francis mixes he...

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. — One image. Two symbols. Dylann Roof, the accused killer of nine parishioners in a black Charleston church, posted a picture of ...

The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not. So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they ...

(TNS) Why isn’t Sepp Blatter in Canada? Blatter, the FIFA president who said he would step down in the wake of a corruption scandal, likes to take cre...

Hillary Rodham Clinton is the front-runner in the Democratic presidential primary, and Jeb Bush is a front-runner in the Republican one. And although ...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich accurately summarized the race for the Republican presidential nomination: "Frankly, I thought Jeb was just going to suck all th...

There were numerous scenes this past weekend — law enforcement personnel searching woodlands and checkpoints on highways and roads — reminiscent of th...

My bedroom might as well have been undiscovered ancient ruins one night earlier this week. The room was pitch black, except for the one sliver of ligh...

More than a century ago, Sonora Louis Smart Dodd aspired to create a holiday to honor fathers. Dodd, the daughter of a single father and Civil War vet...

The Girl Scouts beat the Boy Scouts at the Community Volunteer Day at the SPCA in Cattaraugus County last Saturday. Score: Girl Scouts 1, Boy Scouts 0...

The recent Songs of Faith, Hope and Inspiration concert at the Cuba Palmer Opera House showcased a wide array of gifts and abilities from the “quite y...

One of America’s premier groups in Southern Gospel vocal music, Gold City, will come at 3 p.m. July 5 to Olean’s First Baptist Church for a concert. D...

I n its last week of the current legislative session, the New York State Legislature is considering a bill that, at first glance, represents a positiv...

S mashing Pumpkins, a Chicago-based alternative rock band that entered the mainstream in 1993, is my all-time favorite band from the ‘90s. The Cranber...