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WASHINGTON — The business of baseball and the nation’s business used to be conducted in Washington with similar skill. The Washington Senators were ru...

WASHHINGTON — “Yeah, there’ve been a couple of stumbles,” John Boehner acknowledged Tuesday. The House speaker had spoken with dry understatement. Wha...

The surging interest in youth hockey in the Bradford area has Matt DeGolier thrilled. DeGolier, a Bradford Youth Hockey Club board member, is eagerly ...

It has had a rich history of producing some of the top wrestlers in District 9, but Cameron County High School has yet to win an Allegheny Mountain Le...

WASHINGTON — Are we witnessing the emergence of what might be called a new “sanity caucus” among House Republicans? Earlier this month, 26 of them vot...

WASHINGTON — The young man who answered the phone in the Senate office of Vermont’s Bernie Sanders told the caller, a would-be campaign contributor, t...

HARRISBURG (AP) — In just a few months, state voters could find themselves picking sides in a long-running dispute about who decides which charities s...

WASHINGTON — The great wage mystery deepens. In economic recoveries, there usually comes a time when strong job gains lead to strong wage gains. Busin...

WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared on Tuesday to lay out his economic agenda in his State of the Union address, House Republicans were moving ah...

WASHINGTON — In 1938, Winston Churchill published “While England Slept,” about Britain’s failure to prepare for the Nazi threat. Let’s hope that, when...

WASHINGTON — America’s national character will have to be changed if progressives are going to implement their agenda. So, changing social norms is th...

Not all photographic adventures end up in success, as I would find out very quickly on my first photo outing of the New Year. Yes, my first venture ou...

Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), like many Americans, was upset that President Obama did not go to Paris to personally show his solidarity with France, and...

WASHINGTON — The dustup over “dynamic scoring” is a small indicator of the routine irrelevancy of Washington’s budget debate. Instead of facing the re...

Chris Burnette had dreamed about working for ESPN since he was a child. In three weeks, he’ll be living that dream ... and a lot sooner than he ever e...

WASHINGTON — After his third loss, in 1908, as the Democratic presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan enjoyed telling the story of the drunk who ...

WASHINGTON — I would have thought the French had a better sense of irony. One day they are marching in defiant support of offensive speech. The next t...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s two U.S. senators are beginning the 114th Congress in new places: Democrat Bob Casey in the minority for the first ti...

Which is the best bullet? That’s an excellent question, but the answer depends totally on the game you’re after, the range you expect to be shooting c...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Bills owner Terry Pegula made an interesting observation during Wednesday’s press conference introducing Rex Ryan — late of the N...