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NIAGARA FALLS (TNS) — There is general agreement that New York state needs to expand the number of Supreme Court justices to tackle a mammoth backlog ...

BELMONT — Robert Schappacher of Wirt was convicted Monday of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, a class B felony, the Allegany Coun...

Another column about Donald Trump. I would feel guilty for being repetitive, but really what else is there to write about these days? President Trump ...

OLEAN — In a narrow 4-3 vote, city officials authorized using eminent domain to help clear up real estate matters at the Olean Center Mall in hopes th...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, in a rare interview, denounced the idea of impeaching judges when political leaders disagree with their rulin...

An Allegany County Supreme Court ruling has affirmed that former legislator Adam Cyr vacated his seat by moving from the district he represented. Legi...

ALBANY — A Texas judge has ordered a New York doctor to pay more than $100,000 in penalties for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, a r...

Logan O’Connell, attorney at law and an Olean native, was admitted to the New York State Bar in a ceremony on Jan. 15 at the Appellate Division, Fourt...

OLEAN —The African American Center for Cultural Development is hosting events to mark Black History Month. On Sunday at 2 p.m., the documentary "13th"...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Trump has begun his second term pressing his power to reshape the government by firing federal officials, ending diversit...

ALBANY (TNS) — Banning transgender women from participating in women's sports at public facilities is not a clear violation of laws inNew Yorkthat pro...

WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump's final bid to put his New York hush-money case on hold...

ALBANY (TNS) — A state Supreme Court judge blocked a lawsuit seeking to stop a state law that would ban the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits at pet stor...

A federal judge in Buffalo has ruled that a constitutional challenge to New York state’s ban on selling bulletproof vests to civilians can move forwar...

NEW YORK — A recent Supreme Court decision doesn’t mean New York can’t enforce laws banning firearms from “sensitive” places such as public transporta...

On the back of your ballot in New York state is “Proposal number one, an amendment. It’s presented as an “Amendment to Protect Against Unequal Treatme...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice president, recently said that he thinks that the Electoral College “needs ...

ALBANY — Democrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York’s ballot because they believed it could energize liberals eager to protect abo...