HARRISBURG — Six current and former Bucknell University students claim in a new federal lawsuit that searches of a fraternity and another campus residential building early last year violated constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

Mechanicsburg attorney Devon Jacob said Friday the searches were illegal and conducted under a policy the school has maintained for decades. He said a housing agreement they signed did not permit searches of the kind at issue.

Bucknell, Jacob said, is “saying that that signature waives their constitutional rights, and it doesn't. The case law's clear on that.”

The lawsuit said that the February 2012 searches by university police and personnel from two local sheriff's offices turned up a small amount of marijuana and smoking paraphernalia. Some students were disciplined as a result.

HARRISBURG — A conservative activist says he's planning to challenge Gov. Tom Corbett for the Republican nomination next year.Bob Guzzardi, a businessman and retired lawyer from the Philadelphia suburb of Ardmore, said Thursday he'll run if he can gather the necessary signatures by the March 11 deadline.All candidates for governor are required at a minimum to gather the signatures of 2,000 voters, including 100 from each of 10 counties. The 69-year-old Guzzardi says he wants to provide an alternative to Corbett for conservatives who are angry that Corbett has let them down.Guzzardi says the governor's support for increasing fuel taxes to finance transportation projects violated his no-new-taxes pledge and was the “straw that broke the camel's back.” Guzzardi says he plans a low-budget campaign financed by his own money.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's jobless rate dropped last month, primarily because some people stopped looking for work, while service-sector employers hired more.The state Department of Labor and Industry said Friday that Pennsylvania's unemployment rate was 7.3 in November, down from 7.5 in October.November's rate is Pennsylvania's post-recession low after it hit 7.4 percent in 2009. However, Pennsylvania's labor force, or the number of people working or searching for work, is shrinking and is at its lowest level since February 2012.