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WASHINGTON — When I wrote recently about how most millennials wanted to marry but found marriage out of economic reach, lots of skeptical readers wrot...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Not long ago, the Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law was widely considered one of the nation's weakest open records laws, a statute that...

His legacy in Big 30 athletic history was secure over 40 years ago. Jeff Lloyd was a larger-than-life, three-sport star whose reputation extended far ...

WASHINGTON — The New York Times had a fascinating story the other day, which again raises a crucial historical question about the financial crisis: Di...

There’s nothing better in this world than playoff baseball and a big slab of Shepherd’s Pie. One has incredible drama and the other has all the major ...

CLEVELAND — Ginn Academy resembles no urban public school I’ve ever visited: all male, dress shirt and tie, the Socratic method employed in classrooms...

WASHINGTON — Julia Pierson is really putting “secret” into the Secret Service. First, her agency declared that the White House fence jumper who made i...

It’s time for Week 6. The calendar has flipped to October, the leaves are turning and the air is getting colder. All is right with the world. Some tre...

After another quiet and seemingly smooth offseason, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team will hold its first official practice on Sunday, one tha...

WASHINGTON — It has long been accepted by the conventionally wise that the Republican Party is waging a “war on women.” Let’s be clear. The war on wom...

“The legislative department is everywhere ... drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.” — James Madison, Federalist 48 WASHINGTON — Unfortunately,...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — As a junior college player in Sheridan, Wyo., last year, Iakeem Alston was nowhere close to the live action of Atlantic 10 bas...

Yes, ladies and gentleman, it’s already Week 5 of the NFL season. Let me tell you, it’s finally nice that some of the off-the-field stories are starti...

WASHINGTON — One of the economy’s good-news stories is the oil boom, a derivative of the natural gas boom. When the drilling techniques used to tap va...

WASHINGTON — Who’ll be the next attorney general? Washington’s favorite parlor game is filling Cabinet vacancies; I like playing as much as the next p...

For-profit colleges can’t get no respect, at least not from employers. Which suggests that maybe they should be getting less generous taxpayer subsidi...

What is the biggest problem facing America today? Certainly, there is a long litany to choose from: foreign wars, corrupt politicians, out-of-control ...

It wasn’t merely a play that lost a game. This was the kind that costs a season, both current and long-term. What the Bills’ 23-17 loss to the Texans ...

Two weeks ago yesterday, was a lifetime milestone for Mike Wilber. The 47-year-old Allegany-Limestone physical education teacher and swimming and trac...

URBANDALE, Iowa — The Machine Shed restaurant, where the waitresses wear bib overalls and suggest a cinnamon roll the size of a loaf of bread as a bre...