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By RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Legislature had a rare partisan spat Wednesday as Republicans defeated a Demo...

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...

GENEVA — Bob Hayssen and Phil Beckley hopped into Hayssen’s Hummer this morning for a road trip to Friday’s inauguration of Donald Trump as President ...

ALBANY (AP) — Free state college tuition for middle-class students, an expanded child care tax credit and $1 billion in new spending on public schools...

SYRACUSE — An ambitious Democratic governor with possible White House aspirations has a formula for staying blue in the time of Trump: Take your progr...

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...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York state must stand as an alternative to Donald Trump, showing the nation that tolerance, progressive policies like a higher min...

HONOLULU (AP) — It took eight years of backbiting and pretending they got along for relations between President Barack Obama's administration and Prim...

(TNS) We must as a nation be more unpredictable,” Donald Trump said during the presidential campaign. “We have to be unpredictable!” Mission accomplis...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Student Government interns held the annual Mock County Legislature session Wednesday, debating a range of issues co...

ALBANY (AP) — Efforts to crack down on smuggled, untaxed tobacco in New York state resulted in the seizure of more than 53,000 cartons of contraband c...

(TNS) President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate ExxonMobil’s CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of state is sounding alarm bells among human rig...

(TNS) As an increasingly geriatric Democratic leadership licks its 2016 wounds and mulls the future, who would have thought its first prominent figure...

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...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — The Potter County Commissioners passed a half-mill property tax increase at Thursday’s meeting, and chose to continue waiving the p...