WELLSVILLE — For many years the Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce has honored local businesses, business owners and those who have given back to the community. This year the Chamber has expanded its categories.
Some Social Security recipients across the United States will receive a rare second payment this month, according to the Social Security Administration.
For a rural region, the Twin Tiers that includes Cattaraugus and Allegany counties in New York and McKean and nearby counties in Pennsylvania has multiple avenues one might pursue to earn nursing credentials.
CUBA — With a major employer planning to move out of the community within the next year, local officials hope to get the ball rolling on a project to support the site’s redevelopment.
The Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce reminds area residents that the deadline to register for the May 11 Community-Wide Garage Sale is coming up fast.
ALFRED — John Ninos, owner of The Collegiate Restaurant, began hanging photographs of students graduating from Alfred University’s School of Art and Design, New York College of Ceramics, in 1992, when his parents were still running the family restaurant.
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OLEAN — For the first time ever on its newly opened turf field, the Olean baseball team claimed victory following an explosion of offense in the middle innings of its game against Salamanca.
BOLIVAR — Bolivar-Richburg’s Landon Barkley threw a complete game, scattering three Coudersport hits for just one in a non-league victory.
OLEAN — Allegany-Limestone’s Ryan Lechner won the medalist honor to lead CCAA Div. II golfers Monday at the league’s sectional qualifier tournament, carding a 79 after an 18-hole round at Bart…
HORNELL — The Wellsville boys track and field team won the Hornell Invitational and the Allegany-Limestone girls finished second, highlighting Big 30 teams competing in the meet Friday night.
FILLMORE — The Fillmore softball team (8-7) won its third consecutive game, climbing above .500 and knocking off a strong Genesee Valley/Belfast team.
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A jury awards $9 million to a player who sued the US Tennis Association over sexual abuse by a coach
A tennis player has been awarded $9 million in damages by a jury in federal court in Florida after accusing the U.S. Tennis Association of failing to protect her from a coach she said sexually abused her at one of its training centers when she was 19. The lawsuit filed by Kylie McKenzie in March 2022 said Anibal Aranda, who was employed by the sport’s national governing body for about seven years and later fired, used his position as a USTA coach to get access to vulnerable female athletes and commit sexual battery against them. McKenzie said she feels validated by the outcome of the case. The USTA said it would appeal.
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Two WNBA players were among a dozen Americans who opted to play in Russia this past offseason following Brittney Griner’s incarceration in 2022. Kayla Thornton of the New York Liberty and Monique Billings of the Los Angeles Sparks played for Dynamo Kursk. There were other former WNBA players in the Russian league including Megan Walker and Bria Holmes. WNBA players routinely play in international leagues during the offseason to supplement their league salaries. Russia has one of the highest-paying leagues and was the favored destination for top players like Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Breanna Stewart and Griner. It’s lost its favored status following Griner’s arrest and 10-month imprisonment, as well as Russia’s ongoing war with Ukraine.
OLEAN — A Buffalo man was arrested in connection to charges of kidnapping and rape, the Olean Police Department reported Monday.
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OLEAN — The Olean Police Department reported Wednesday they are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a stolen e-bike.
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WELLSVILLE — For many years the Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce has honored local businesses, business owners and those who have given back to the community. This year the Chamber has expa…
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OLEAN — A favorite character from Pixar’s “Cars” franchise has made his way from Radiator Springs to the Southern Tier thanks to the creativity of local artist Eric Jones.
For a rural region, the Twin Tiers that includes Cattaraugus and Allegany counties in New York and McKean and nearby counties in Pennsylvania has multiple avenues one might pursue to earn nurs…
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ST. BONAVENTURE — Visitors to instruction spaces in St. Bonaventure University’s Dennis R. DePerro School of Health Professions can find themselves forgetting they’re not actually in a medical…
CUBA — With a major employer planning to move out of the community within the next year, local officials hope to get the ball rolling on a project to support the site’s redevelopment.
NEW YORK (TNS) — If privileged college kids want to root for terrorists, that's their right, as wrong-headed as it is.
There will be a vote to remove Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson this week and it will fail thanks to Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York. It’s not that Jeffries doesn’t want to become speaker himself, but that will be decided by the American people six months from now…
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Donald Trump has put America on notice: If he loses the presidential election, he reserves the right to encourage his followers to fight.
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — How much is current college superstar and future WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark worth? The WNBA says she’s worth (in the arrangement the player’s union negotiated) $76,535 her first year and about $338,000 for the first four years of her career.
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Public school districts across New York state are preparing for the annual budget vote and school board election on Tuesday, May 21.
BUFFALO — Democratic state Sen. Timothy Kennedy won a special election Tuesday for the New York congressional seat vacated by Democrat Brian Higgins.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is highlighting the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which has been signed into law.
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The return of warmer weather means a return of concerns about ticks when one spends any time in the woods or fields of the Twin Tiers.
WEBSTER (AP) — A Rochester-area district attorney apologized Monday after police video showed her cursing at an officer who tried to give her a speeding ticket and telling him to “just go away.”
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The United Nations chief is appealing to Israel and Hamas to reach a cease-fire agreement, warning that this is a decisive moment for the region.
Witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial is moving forward again and all eyes are on who will be called next. Porn actor Stormy Daniels was called to the witness stand mid-morning Tuesday and is expected to testify about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. Monday's testimony saw two witnesses tied to the Trump Organization elaborate on a key part of the charges in the case: Michael Cohen's reimbursement for hush money payments. Trump was also fined for again violating his gag order. Prosecutors say Trump and his associates schemed to influence the 2016 presidential election by buying and burying negative stories about Trump. He has pleaded not guilty.
Police in riot gear blocked access to the University of Chicago’s Quad early Tuesday. President Paul Alivisatos acknowledged the school’s role as a protector of freedom of speech but his message to the university community also took on an enough-is-enough stance. Just over 2,600 people have been arrested on the campuses of 50 colleges and universities since April 18, according to figures based on AP reporting and statements from universities and law enforcement agencies. Not all schools are taking such an approach. The president at Wesleyan University has commended the on-campus demonstration as an act of political expression.
Porn actor Stormy Daniels has testified at Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial about a sexual encounter she says they had in 2006 that resulted in her being paid off to keep silent during the presidential election a decade later. Daniels’ testimony Tuesday included a detailed and at times graphic accounting of an encounter Trump has denied. Daniels’ testimony is central to the case because in the final weeks of Trump’s 2016 Republican presidential campaign, his lawyer Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 to keep quiet. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with the hush money payments. The former president has pleaded not guilty.
A jury awards $9 million to a player who sued the US Tennis Association over sexual abuse by a coach
A tennis player has been awarded $9 million in damages by a jury in federal court in Florida after accusing the U.S. Tennis Association of failing to protect her from a coach she said sexually abused her at one of its training centers when she was 19. The lawsuit filed by Kylie McKenzie in March 2022 said Anibal Aranda, who was employed by the sport’s national governing body for about seven years and later fired, used his position as a USTA coach to get access to vulnerable female athletes and commit sexual battery against them. McKenzie said she feels validated by the outcome of the case. The USTA said it would appeal.
Holocaust survivors are participating in a digital campaign called #CancelHate which features videos of them reading Holocaust denial posts from different social media platforms. The campaign was launched Thursday by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Each post illustrates how denial and distortion can not only rewrite history but perpetuates antisemitic tropes and spreads hate. In the videos, the survivors juxtapose the hate post with their personal stories of persecution during the Holocaust. The campaign comes at a time when antisemitic incidents, triggered by Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and the following war, have increased from Europe to the U.S. and beyond, to levels not seen in decades.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — David V. Bruce, the former director of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cattaraugus County, is heading to Antarctica, but not just to see the penguins and whales.
Several of the area’s state and federal representatives Tuesday joined more than half of all U.S. governors in calling to repel Syrian refugees after the ISIS-backed attacks in Paris.
