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HARRISBURG, Pa. – An activist filed a lawsuit Monday contesting a pay raise lawmakers approved for themselves last month, saying the state constitution prohibits the legislature from increasing its own members’ pay. The bill increased legislators’ base pay from $69,647 to $81,050 and gives a bonus to the scores of …

Melvyn Reed’s triple-bypass heart operation led to triple heartbreak. First one wife came to see the 59-year-old British car salesman in the hospital. Then another. And then a third. “Unfortunately, the timing of the visits went out of sync, and they all arrived at once,” the admitted bigamist, or even …

TOPEKA, Kan. – A debate over teaching evolution is resuming because some educators don’t want to pass up a chance to tell the State Board of Education how they feel about science standards favored by the theory’s critics. The board’s conservative Republican majority tinkered last month with proposed standards, adding …