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PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had to...

MOUNT MORRIS — The Friends of the Genesee Valley Greenway have announced that landscape architect Pauline Burnes has recently joined the Genesee Valle...

WASHINGTON — Congressional representatives from New York state and the Northeast are touting a new bill to help dairy farmers. As part of National Agr...

WELLSVILLE — Earlier this month the village board received notification that it once again, for the 31st time, has been named a Tree City USA by the A...

OLEAN — The Tri-County Arts Council has updated their Artist Market and will be open Tuesday to Friday, noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m...

It’s been two decades since, on March 19, 2003, United States forces invaded Iraq. President George W. Bush ordered the invasion to neutralize what he...

NEW YORK — For 40 years, former President Donald Trump has navigated countless legal investigations without ever facing criminal charges. That record ...

The disdain law students and their administrators show the First Amendment and differing viewpoints should be a major societal concern. Earlier this m...

ALLEGANY — The monthly meeting of the Right Thinkers at its new location Monday focused on green energy policies, with a group of panelists expressing...

ALBANY — The New York State Office for the Aging urges all individuals age 60 and older to answer a newly launched statewide Community Assessment Surv...

CUBA — The Cuba Circulating Library will host a presentation on one of the most notorious train disasters in United States history by St. Bonaventure ...

NEW YORK — In 1692, the good people of Salem, Massachusetts, went searching for evil. They could have just looked in the mirror. Driven by ignorance, ...

Ken Salazar, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, met with the Los Angeles Times for more than an hour while visiting California in November. He was eager t...

ALBANY (TNS) — Republican lawmakers pressed their Democratic colleagues on spending, debt and public safety Thursday as the Senate and Assembly approv...

We learned recently that, once again, Novak Djokovic, the world’s greatest tennis player, will be barred from competing in the U.S. because he isn’t v...

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — The grief is still suffocating, the anger still visceral, President Joe Biden said Tuesday, in this suburban Los Angeles commu...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to lift a cap on charter schools. That’s a good idea, albeit a rather modest one, but you wouldn’t know it by t...

It’s been nearly 60 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act. The signing was done out of the view of the public, ir...