BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Nearly three decades ago, when Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ wife was 20 weeks pregnant with their first child, a doctor discovered their daughter had spina bifida and encouraged an abortion. The Edwardses refused.

Pennsylvania's unemployment rate dropped in March to the lowest rate on record, as payrolls hit a record high and the number of people unemployed shrank to its lowest level since 2000, the state Department of Labor and Industry said.