Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Apr 11, 2019
ST. BONAVENTURE — Two now-deceased friars, who both served in administrative positions in the Olean area’s two most prominent Catholic educational ins...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Apr 08, 2019
ST. BONAVENTURE — A St. Bonaventure University conference on the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis has been canceled amid concerns the event would...
Western New York
Nov 28, 2018
BUFFALO (AP) — With church leaders under scrutiny for their handling of sexual misconduct by priests, a group of lay people in Western New York is foc...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Nov 16, 2018
ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University says that the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo should not have publicly named a deceased university friar as b...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Nov 09, 2018
ST. BONAVENTURE — A longtime and now-deceased St. Bonaventure University friar had a child sexual abuse allegation against him stemming out of the Arc...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Nov 07, 2018
ST. BONAVENTURE — A longtime and now-deceased St. Bonaventure University friar was credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor. The Rev. Maurice Sche...
News, Western New York
Nov 05, 2018
BUFFALO (AP) — Embattled Bishop Richard Malone says he will publicly address the issue of sexual misconduct by clergy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of...
Allegany County News, Crime, Local News, ...
Nov 01, 2018
BUFFALO — A former Allegany County priest has been suspended following an abuse complaint. Bishop Richard J. Malone placed the Rev. Michael Juran on a...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Oct 19, 2018
BUFFALO — A federal investigation into clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is underway. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Buffalo has s...
Crime, News
Oct 17, 2018
BRADFORD, Pa. — A former Bradford priest who was criminally charged for allegations he sexually abused or attempted to sexually abuse two boys has ple...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Sep 25, 2018
ELLICOTTVILLE — An Ellicottville priest has been suspended by the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo for an allegation of abuse. Buffalo Bishop Richard J. Ma...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Sep 12, 2018
OLEAN — The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels will spend Friday praying for the victims of clergy sexual abuse, as well as the Catholic Diocese of Bu...
Local News, News
Aug 15, 2018
More than 1,300 pages representing years of pain, darkness and horror were released by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tuesday, in the statewide grand ...
Cattaraugus County, Here And Now, Local News, ...
Aug 12, 2018
OLEAN — The Very Rev. Gregory Dobson sat on the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels’ rectory porch Wednesday morning, attempting to pack up — and throw...
Commentary, Leters to the Editor
Jul 30, 2018
Anyone who commits sexual abuse should go to jail, including Catholic priests. Of the 42 priests listed in March by the Buffalo Diocese as having been...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Jun 09, 2018
OLEAN — Speakers, singers and a puppet joined the chorus of well-wishers honoring Olean’s “simple country priest” as he heads away after more than two...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Apr 23, 2018
OLEAN — The Very Rev. Gregory Dobson’s sermon this weekend was about shepherds, who he said can either lead from the front or lead from behind. “I hav...
Commentary, Leters to the Editor
Apr 05, 2018
The great tragedy and shame of the Catholic Church is how the bishops and cardinals moved priests from parish to parish — or looked the other way — wh...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
Ruth M. Baillargeon, mother, grandmother, sister BELFAST --- Ruth M. Baillargeon, 82, of Belfast, New York, passed away Monday, June 16, 2025 at High...
June 16, 2025
Robert E. Stephens PORTVILLE === Robert E. Stephens of 24 Finch Street, passed away on Friday, June 13, 2025 at the Cuba Memorial Skilled Nursing Faci...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I talk about what’s happening in Albany — but the failures keep repeating. This year was no different. Whil...
