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September 27, 2025
SALAMANCA — A Salamanca man was being held for the murder of another person in the city, Salamanca police reported Saturday. Andrew C. Skye, 35, of 31...
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Feb 12, 2024
SYRACUSE (TNS) — A bill currently making its way through New York’s state legislature would allow medical cannabis patients from other states to buy w...
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 11, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — It just got harder for the Supreme Court to save Donald Trump from criminal prosecution for his involvement with the violence at the ...
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 08, 2024
The Senate immigration compromise crumbled away just days after its birth. Many conservatives said it doesn’t go far enough to stem border chaos, whil...
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 08, 2024
Joe Biden is supposed to know something about legislating. After all, he spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate. He must have learned something in those de...
News, NY State News
Feb 07, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — Accusations that migrants beat NYPD officers late last month and the arrest Monday of five other migrants in a string of brazen moped...
News, Western New York
Feb 07, 2024
BUFFALO (AP) — A man who sued Buffalo police after being ticketed for shouting at an officer to turn on his headlights can move forward with his legal...
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 07, 2024
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982...
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 07, 2024
Perhaps the most head-spinning statement of the Biden years came about a week ago when President Joe Biden endorsed an impending Senate immigration de...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Daily Headlines, ...
Feb 06, 2024
A U.S. Senate compromise meant to hold back the tide of illegal immigration on the southern border was rejected by U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy on Monday...
Feb 06, 2024
WASHINGTON — Facing a torrent of criticism from conservatives, Senate Republicans on Monday resisted advancing on a bipartisan proposal intended to cl...
News, NY State News
Feb 05, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — A state judge on Monday upheld a law expanding New York’s early voting period to allow widespread balloting by mail, ruling against R...
Commentary, New York
Feb 05, 2024
ALBANY (TNS) — Some bits and pieces rattling around my head during the depths of an Upstate New York winter... • Former NRA honcho Wayne LaPierre is a...
Commentary, New York
Feb 05, 2024
It’s looking more and more like New York got mobile sports betting right. Wish we could say the same for the rollout of recreational cannabis. Gov. Ka...
Commentary, New York
Feb 01, 2024
The Commission on Judicial Conduct deserves more funding than Gov. Hochul proposed for it. The work of the Commission on Judicial Conduct is vital to ...
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Feb 01, 2024
What do you call it when somewhere between 6 and 8 million people enter the United States illegally in the course of three years? Many people would ca...
Allegany County News, Business, Cattaraugus County, ...
Jan 31, 2024
The New York State Farm Bureau president said Tuesday that full funding for agriculture programs in the state budget is the bureau’s top priority for ...
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Jan 30, 2024
ALBANY — New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by G...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jan 30, 2024
Budget adoption season is underway at the State Capitol, which means, first, that joint Senate-Assembly public hearings on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2024-25...
Local News, News, NY State News
October 2, 2025
WHITESVILLE — Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski presented $20,000 in unrestricted state aid to Whitesville Central School Superintendent Tammy Emely on Wed...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
October 2, 2025
ELLICOTTVILLE — The Bob McCarthy Foundation continues its annual funding of critical programs in the community, including supporting prevention servic...
Business, Local News, News
October 2, 2025
KNAPP CREEK — Another ideal autumn weekend is in the forecast as Rock City Park will host its 17th annual Gem-Mineral-Fossil Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p....
News, NY State News
October 2, 2025
ALBANY (TNS) — Only two states — Oregon and Colorado — allow psilocybin, the hallucinogenic ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, to be used for medici...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
"There is never, ever a good reason to force a government shutdown. It disrupts vital government services, hurts those dependent on those services, un...
Commentary, Opinion
October 2, 2025
This past Sunday I climbed Phelps Mountain, one of the 46 high peaks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. As I was hiking, I thought back to 1968 ...
