By LARRY MARGASAK WASHINGTON - The House wants to ensure that current and former teenage pages are no longer vulnerable to improper conduct by lawmakers like former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla.

By LEE BOWMAN, Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON -- The issue of who knew what and when about Rep. Mark Foley's contacts with House pages is at the crux of a still- evolving investigation and political storm engulfing Republican leaders.

By LARRY MARGASAK WASHINGTON - The House on Friday overhauled the board supervising its teenage pages, responding to a scandal that left youngsters vulnerable to a lawmaker's sexual come-ons and helped Democrats win control of Congress.

By GERARD SHIELDS It started simply with a thank you note. A congressional page working out of the office of U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-Quitman, issued the cards to members of Congress who had been kind to him during his stay that ended in July 2005. One of those members was U.S. Rep.

WASHINGTON - Former Rep. Mark Foley was described as a "ticking time bomb" for his sexual come-ons to male pages, but Republican lawmakers and aides for a decade failed to protect the teenagers vulnerable to his advances, the House ethics committee concluded Friday.