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WASHINGTON — Visiting a struggling pitcher on the mound, Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver advised, “If you know how to cheat, start now.” Be advi...

The only thing I hate more than broccoli is Duke. In a perfect world, which we haven’t seen since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Gonzaga would’ve been in...

(Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the St. Bonaventure baseball team in 2015. Thursday’s piece was on the medical condition co...

WASHINGTON — The John Boehner/Nancy Pelosi agreement on Medicare doctors’ payments — permanently easing up on scheduled cuts, funded (partially) by me...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Now, Larry Sudbrook was willing to admit that something was wrong. It was Sunday, Feb. 22, just four days before his team woul...

WASHINGTON — If you looked in my Washington Post personnel file, you would find an ancient evaluation that describes me as having “sharp elbows.” More...

WASHINGTON —Excited protests against Indiana’s recently passed religious freedom law have highlighted both America’s growing support for same-sex marr...

I hope you enjoyed the five inches of snow on your front porch Tuesday morning. I know a large group of people that didn’t —namely the student-athlete...

Gov. Tom Wolf has proposed a budget with a spending rate clocking in at a blistering $1,000 per second. That means in the time it takes you to read th...

WASHINGTON — The apparently intentional downing of a Germanwings airliner by the co-pilot has us riveted, as commercial plane crashes usually do. In e...

Some random thoughts on the Bills’ impressive season ticket sales and the Sabres tanking: If you doubted whether what the Bills have done this off-sea...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s health overhaul remains an all-consuming drama for many, even though millions of people are gaining insuran...

Governors propose and legislatures dispose. That particular political adage could be one that Tom Wolf, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, might...

WASHINGTON — Every day the Chinese go to work, Americans get a raise: Chinese workers, many earning each day about what Americans spend on a Starbucks...

WASHINGTON — President Obama got it two-thirds right when he said that the delayed confirmation of his attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch, is owi...

The crowd, by all indications, was spectacular, with nearly 800 spectators jam-packed inside Portville Central School’s gym for both the boys and girl...

Monday was a bit of an anniversary. Just four short weeks ago our water system that serves the entire Tuna Valley was dealt a crippling blow. The 24” ...

A week before his team’s bid for a second-straight Sweet 16, and minutes after downing St. Bonaventure in the Atlantic 10 tournament quarterfinals, Da...

In Saudi Arabia, the Mutaween are 3,500 public officials and thousands of volunteers who work for the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Pr...

WASHINGTON — I’m standing in the Starbucks line behind 10 other sleepyheads waiting to order my tall skinny cappuccino, otherwise known as a shot of c...