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(TNS) We treat political campaigns like slow-moving athletic competitions and like to pretend that every last gaffe could determine the next president...

(TNS) The now-discredited study got headlines because it offered hope. It seemed to prove that our sense of empathy, our basic humanity, could overcom...

(TNS) Since the 1960s, the national conversation on firearms in both political and academic circles has revolved around one main question: Do guns inc...

ROCKVILLE, MD. — Fidelis Militante immigrated to America 10 years ago from the Philippines. When she was still in high school, she qualified as a nurs...

(TNS) In a somber opening to wildfire season this month, federal and state officials meeting in Nevada warned that kindling-dry forests and a rainless...

Five years ago Casey Jones and Lila Ervay started the City of Olean Neighborhood Preservation Committee (CONPC) with a primary focus on litter control...

WASHINGTON — Sadly enough, the talk in the administration and in the media over the Memorial Day weekend — even as the traditional concert was grandly...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court ruling due in a few weeks could wipe out health insurance for millions of people covered by President Barack Obama's...

NEW YORK (AP) — At the height of the evening rush in Brooklyn, Gilbert Drogheo took a subway ride that he didn't survive. Drogheo, a 32-year-old elect...

World War II began for my dad, John McElfresh, in the lobby of The First National Bank a couple of days after Pearl Harbor. He was waiting to take the...

(TNS) A Wall Street Journal editorial late last week predicted what would happen if Republicans won the King v. Burwell case, which the Supreme Court ...

It's a start. A small one. Hillary Clinton answered six questions in five minutes during a campaign stop in Iowa, making no news and giving prepackage...

I have been wanting to compose a letter to the editor for over a year now, but had not gotten around to it. However, my mother, Margaret Wright, recen...

I would like to tell you about the process going forward to provide an additional facility to address homelessness in our community. First, let me rem...

I am writing in response to the Olean Times Herald article in Monday’s edition about the “American Pickers” visit last week to the Mather Homestead in...

EDITOR'S NOTE: An occasional look at how Washington works behind the scenes. There's more than a touch of absurdity in the way an industry fee in Pres...

(TNS) When a bridge falls, when a water main fails, or when a train crashes, news crews and commentators report on the sorry state of our nation’s inf...

(TNS) Last week marked the end of the spring semester at the college where I work. Everyone, students and teachers, is happy that it’s over, but I sus...