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I understand that I may have ruffled a few feathers in Falcons country last week! Hey, even prognosticators can get caught up in the pre-season hype. ...

WASHINGTON — The animal kingdom will have lost one of its staunchest defenders when the Oval Office is abandoned by Barack Obama, who through a series...

TERRACE PARK, Ohio — Sen. Rob Portman probably will win a second term, despite the fact that he deserves to. The swarm of young people who gathered on...

WASHINGTON — Forget the "gig economy" — at least for now. On Labor Day 2016, we are in the midst of a historic transformation of the American job mark...

The prediction was supposed to sound ominous. But to many listeners, it just sounded delicious. “My culture is a very dominant culture, and it’s impos...

Did the Bradford High Owls get caught up reading their press clippings? If so, maybe last week’s loss to Coudersport wasn’t such a bad thing. The Owls...

Golf. It’s the gentleman’s game. A game of precision. A national pastime. I don’t golf. I don’t like golf. And unless I need to get a head start on a ...

Irish poets learn your trade Sing whatever is well made. ... — William Butler Yeats, "Under Ben Bulben" LOS ANGELES — For 67 years, the son of Vincent...

WASHINGTON — Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas, the old saying goes. If so, Donald Trump should be awfully itchy. Trump has just augmented his eve...

Don’t expect a second War on Poverty, regardless of who wins the election. Picking up where Lyndon Johnson left off in the 1960s would seem a logical ...

Donald Trump has warned us about those Mexican rapists. Apparently the country also has body snatchers. The Republican presidential nominee immigrated...

The late afternoon sun dropped lower in the brassy colored sky, the sun-baked hayfield taking on a softer and more golden hue than the previous dried ...

Only the naive have ever believed that democracy is solely a noble contest over competing ideas, proposals and solutions. Emotion looms large in every...

WASHINGTON — Of the 2016 election's lightning storm of shocks, few will have more lasting political consequence than the discrediting of the main medi...

Is there ever going to be a season where the Allegheny Mountain League schedule-makers give the North Division schools a break! Do they (schedule-make...

WASHINGTON — Because truth in labeling laws are among the laws from which Washington feels exempt, the titles of congressional legislation often take ...

Mark Burns has done well for himself as a Donald Trump surrogate. The African American pastor, in his Twitter bio, says he “can be seen on CNN, Fox Ne...

I shouldn’t tell you this. Publicity will only make the problem worse. But you deserve to know: Tax cheating is about to rise in the United States. To...

WASHINGTON — When Donald Trump says he has a great relationship with "the Blacks," I wonder if he also gets along well with the Smiths. We know he's t...

WASHINGTON — So far, Donald Trump's outreach to African-Americans has consisted of stereotyping them as impoverished, as attending failed schools and ...