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Any U.S. senator who votes to confirm Betsy DeVos as secretary of education should be jammed into a burn barrel and launched into the Potomac River. D...

OLEAN — City lawmakers soon to draft the 2017-18 budget may adopt an official accounting principle to govern its fund balance. Currently, there’s no l...

CUBA — A Friendship resident is accusing the Cuba town supervisor of posting “hate speech” aimed at President Barack Obama on his Facebook page. Pat C...

F rom police rounding up Olean’s aldermen to the first American Christmas during World War II, from the city government’s first “computer” to a specia...

(TNS) We’re all familiar with “pleading the Fifth” — the privilege against self-incrimination. But there’s a lot more to the Fifth Amendment than that...

F rom the rare centenarian to preparing Olean for war, from the Bonnies battling Xavier to major snowfalls, here’s a look at the week that was 100, 75...

OLEAN — The push to revive a citywide neighborhood-safety program reached its first official city discussion Tuesday at the Olean Common Council’s Pub...

On Nov. 8, the most important presidential election in America since Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 will take place. Everyone has a God-given obl...

IRVING — The new leaders of the Seneca Nation of Indians assumed their offices Tuesday following inaugural ceremonies held at the Seneca Gaming and En...

OLEAN — Though unopposed, two candidates running to fill two seats on the Olean City School District’s Board of Education made their cases to be elect...