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From Galileo to genetics, the Roman Catholic Church has danced with science, sometimes in a high-tension tango but more often in a supportive waltz. P...

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

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...

The headline over the Wall Street Journal editorial reads: "No-Growth Republicanism." The subhead explains: "The GOP's anti-immigration wing is anti-t...

OLEAN — For two construction seasons three years ago I found many of my stories sounding like a scratched CD. In the springs, summers and falls of 201...

Y et again, a New York state politician has resigned a post in the wake of being charged with corruption. Ho, hum, just another week in Albany ... For...