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I was recently talking to a Foster Township resident who explained to me that Bradford City Mayor Tom Riel was going to make him pay for rain. I confe...

WASHINGTON — As the Islamic State amped up attacks around the world, the Pentagon responded by bravely announcing that American women will now be put ...

It was an intriguing story to read. The dateline was St. Marys so it caught my attention instantly. Of all the problems the Catholic church has it wou...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — We’ve been here before. Four times since the Bills last made the playoffs, Buffalo has been 6-6 (2004, 04, 07, 08) at the three-q...

WASHINGTON — "Mommy, what did the news used to be about before it was about terrorism?" That was my younger daughter, snuggling in bed a few weeks aft...

WASHINGTON — Progressives are increasingly preoccupied with income inequality, and their current hero, Sen. Bernie Sanders, favors increasing the tax ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Around this time of year, Joel and Lorraine Leydier usually make their annual drive from their home in a small town east of Toron...

Who is Brock Osweiler? Was he the German chemist who discovered uranium in 1789? No silly reader. That was Martin Heinrich Klaproth of the Wernigerode...

Deer hunting reminds me of Christmas when you’re very young. Those days when Santa spreads his special magic and the Christmas tree, in all its glory,...

LILLE, France (AP) — Security and migrants, themes irresistible to France's far-right National Front, are being served up on a silver platter to leade...

Whoever wins the White House next year will have to deal with an issue of almost-impenetrable complexity and contentiousness: How to tax multinational...

WASHINGTON — Predictably, the killing rampage at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility has prompted a political scrimmage of the usual sort. ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Sen. Tim Scott, who evidently has not received the memo explaining that politics is a grim and bitter business, laughs easily and o...

During this past week a three-year-old boy in Rock Hill, S.C., killed himself when he was playing with a loaded gun in his house. He wasn’t the only o...

WASHINGTON — Inflammatory rhetoric inflames. Words — extreme language and overheated representations — have consequences. The killer bears the ultimat...

WASHINGTON — The news in Jon Meacham's biography of George H.W. Bush involved Bush 41's dyspeptic views of Bush 43's senior advisers — "iron-ass" Dick...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's offenses against taste, tolerance and truthfulness are coming so fast that it is hard to pick out individual cases. But le...

Is it really a mystery why the Bills are en route to a 16th straight season missing the playoffs? Yeah, I know, even after Sunday’s 30-22 loss to the ...

WASHINGTON — As the administrative state distorts America's constitutional architecture, Clarence Thomas becomes America's indispensable constitutiona...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania is now five months into a budget impasse with taxes the main sticking point — a scenario familiar to anyone who's tried...