military

Starting a lively conversation among hunters is easy; just suggest that you surely know the best caliber for deer hunting. Spend a little time in a hu...

Just like the storied wall of Chinese fame, reared across the nation’s hills and vales, here at our southern border we shall build, a mighty wall with...

If you asked 10 deer hunters for their definition of “hunting” you’d probably get 10 different answers. Looking in a good dictionary would get you a f...

The media and the political establishment’s excoriation of President Donald Trump for his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from the battlefield of eas...

ROCHESTER (AP) — A Rochester-based unit of the New York Army National Guard is being given a send-off as it prepares for its eventual deployment to Af...

In Saturday and Sunday’s editions we related the story of Lt. Sylvenus A. Fay, the Union officer in the 85th New York Infantry from Olean who was capt...

OLEAN — A pair of early Christmas morning fires a block apart on West Greene Street are under investigation, city police and firefighters reported. No...

Members of the Crino family will today, perhaps more than any other day of the year, make sure their cell phones are on with the volume turned all the...

From an honor for local gunners to munitions workers walking off the job, from a community reeling from an airliner crash to a familiar face staring b...

In Saturday’s edition we related the story of Lt. Sylvenus A. Fay, the Union officer in the 85th New York from Olean who was captured in the Battle of...

Earlier this month we received a call from a military artifact appraiser and historian, Art Beltrone of Keswick, Va., who has in his possession an art...

Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy Whitcomb announced the deputizing of a new road patrol canine. Nichols, a 2-year-old German Shepard, started traini...

OLEAN — A Monday afternoon fire destroyed a town of Olean garage but spared the neighboring home. The Hinsdale Volunteer Fire Department received a re...

From the return of Company I’s wounded to Salamanca’s draft board quitting over new rules, from a mess for B&O railroad crews in Limestone to missing ...

Carefully but methodically, and with a little help from a family friend, Charles “Charlie” Brown slipped on a modern U.S. Army combat jacket Friday af...

FREDONIA (AP) — Authorities say police responding to a medical emergency at a home Monday shot and killed a person who attacked an officer with a knif...

In October we wrote about Karen Zale’s book, “The Will To Survive,” which she wrote to honor her father, the late John Zale, who survived the Battle o...

Remember Pearl Harbor? Americans today still certainly mark the fateful day when, 77 years ago, Japanese dive and torpedo bombers and fighters swooped...