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Where the dickens is Northern Illinois and why did it give the big bad Buckeyes such a rough time last Saturday in the 20-13 defeat? According to Wiki...

WASHINGTON — One part of me wants to bash Carly Fiorina for her persistent dishonesty. The other part wants to defend her against Donald Trump's persi...

WASHINGTON — In the spirit of charity prompted by Pope Francis' visit to the U.S., let's not call them bigots. Let's just call them the clueless, the ...

WASHINGTON — Sometimes what seems the least consequential detail tells the most about a person's character — or at least his or her intentions. Such w...

WASHINGTON — What is the proper response from a prospective president to the question: Is being a Muslim disqualifying for the presidency? Ben Carson ...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — You can put that Super Bowl talk on hold … in fact, maybe the Bills should put talk on hold all together. After all, that's what ...

WASHINGTON — It was a coincidence, but a jarring one, that the second Republican presidential debate took place the day before Constitution Day. The G...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Despite the legal and political uproar over Gov. Tom Wolf’s 7-month-old moratorium on executions, change comes slowly on Pennsylvani...

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert's indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccabl...

The state of Pennsylvania has an official motto, and it’s a fine one: (BEG ITAL)“Virtue, Liberty, and Independence (END ITAL).” Alas, the state legisl...

With the opening of the high school football season, local newspapers and TV stations have again been running lists of what they believe are the top t...

WASHINGTON —The relatively rare moments of economic analysis and political outreach in the second Republican debate — Chris Christie talking about inc...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pope Francis will arrive Sept. 22 in the United States to find a Catholic church playing a prominent role in American life, with a vas...

CLEVELAND — About a mile from where the Cleveland Indians test their fans' patience, there is a facility that expresses Ohio's attempt to temper justi...

It’s barely seven weeks until the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team plays its season-opening exhibition game at the new-look Reilly Center and one...

WASHINGTON — His father had a term that could be applied to Jeb Bush's tax plan: "voodoo economics," the unproven notion that massive tax cuts for the...

WASHINGTON — Once upon a time in a twinkling city on a hill, little boys and girls were taught that anyone could grow up to become president. The chil...

The Goon Monsters had no idea what to expect. The six off-road riders went into the Northeast 24-Hour Challenge “blind,” according to Pat Kellam of Br...

WASHINGTON — Conducting government business via private email was a mistake, Hillary Clinton has conceded. She's sorry, albeit belatedly, grudgingly, ...

WASHINGTON — Since the Iran nuclear deal was announced in mid-July, the world has been treated to an unusual historical spectacle. As President Obama ...