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When 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 18...

Convicted sex offender Gerald Pope’s appeal to the state Superior Court has been granted, and his case is being sent back to McKean County Court for r...

The state Superior Court has upheld a McKean County Court ruling labeling Bradford man Aaron Nazario a sexually violent predator. In June 2016, Nazari...

WASHINGTON — If Beltway insiders and other East Coast elites ever wondered why so many Americans prefer Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, all they need...

I admit it, I am a fan of The Walking Dead. The degeneration of society in a zombie apocalypse is fascinating, and the brutal end to anyone — no matte...

MILWAUKEE —In 49 states, when you order breakfast in a restaurant you might be asked if you would like pancakes or an omelet. In Wisconsin, you are as...

When the communities of Allegany and Limestone in New York state approved the merger of their two school districts in May of 1995, the naysayers in Li...

WASHINGTON — It is the nature of extreme partisanship to turn honest disagreements into alternative realities. The representatives of our own ideologi...

WASHINGTON — The case against Hillary Clinton could have been written before the recent WikiLeaks and FBI disclosures. But these documents do provide ...

Regardless of who wins the election, the press — or, at any rate, what used to be called the “mainstream” media — may be the big loser. Donald Trump i...

WASHINGTON —A specter is haunting academia, the specter of specters — ghosts, goblins and "cultural appropriation" through insensitive Halloween costu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump keeps peddling the notion the vote may be rigged. It's unclear whether he understands the potential damage of his words...

WASHINGTON — As the final presidential debate looms like a Halloween pinata full of October surprises, voters may be less committed to one or the othe...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — If I were to distill a recent public discussion about the state of our nation to one word, it would be "worried." Not fearful, ...

WASHINGTON — Given even the lowest expectations, Donald Trump still has the capacity to surprise. In recent days, Trump has sneered at the looks of a ...

WASHINGTON — Another small step was taken last week on the steep and winding ascent back to constitutional norms. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D....

WASHINGTON — The arm went around my shoulder. Then the hand began to creep, farther and farther, down the neckline of my dress. I was 20, at a fancy d...

What is the Republican Party? Suddenly, this has become one of the central questions of the 2016 campaign. It’s not simply a matter of whether the GOP...

WASHINGTON — In the interest of fairness, I wish to raise an issue on which Donald Trump has been consistently and resoundingly right: The Republican ...

WASHINGTON — The second presidential debate — bloody, muddy and raucous — was just enough to save Donald Trump's campaign from extinction, but not eno...