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POLITICS / NEWS Sat Feb 6, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Jenny Sanford devotes much of her new book to roasting her husband, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, but she admits that warning signs were there, even early on... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Nov 24, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- The South Carolina Ethics Commission has charged Gov. Mark Sanford with 37 counts of violating state ethics laws, according to a complaint released by the commission on Monday... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Sep 15, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The House will vote Tuesday on a resolution of disapproval of Rep. Joe Wilson, the South Carolina Republican who yelled "you lie" during President Barack Obama's health-care speech to a joint session of Congress last week... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Aug 11, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, already under fire for an extramarital relationship, should be impeached for abusing state finances, a Republican state senator said Monday. Sen. David Thomas accused his fellow Republican of violating state regulations when the governor took flights to London, England, and China in 2006 and 2007 on state business... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jul 7, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- It was late December 2007, and all eyes were on South Carolina... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jul 7, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- After nearly four hours of deliberation and multiple rounds of balloting, the South Carolina Republican Party voted Monday night to censure Mark Sanford for traveling overseas to visit his mistress -- but stopped short of calling on the governor to resign. No sitting governor has previously been censured by the South Carolina Republican Party... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jun 30, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Three more Republicans in the South Carolina state legislature spoke out against Gov. Mark Sanford on Monday and said the best thing for him to do in the wake of last week's scandal is resign... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jun 29, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The woman with whom South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had an affair broke her silence Sunday long enough to say she wouldn't discuss her relationship with the now-embattled governor... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jun 26, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford plans to return to work Friday, despite calls for him to resign because of a sex scandal... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jun 25, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's office is in damage-control mode Thursday, a day after the Republican governor tearfully admitted he's been having an extramarital affair... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jun 24, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford did not spend the last five days hiking the Appalachian Trail -- as his staff indicated -- but instead was in Argentina, he told The State newspaper. Spotted returning to the airport in Atlanta, Georgia, Sanford told the paper he had considered hiking the trail after the end of his state's busy legislative season but decided differently. "I wanted to do something exotic," Sanford said... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jun 23, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- A mystery surrounding the whereabouts of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was apparently solved late Monday when a Sanford spokesman said he was hiking along the Appalachian Trail... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed May 7, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Barack Obama has scored a clear win in the Democratic presidential primary in North Carolina, while Hillary Clinton has narrowly won the Indiana primary. Senator Obama won 56% of the vote in North Carolina, while Senator Clinton won 51% of the vote in.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jan 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- That change is also evident in South Carolina, where the new MSNBC poll shows a 10-point decline for Obama among whites in just one week. Although a generic Democrat has a 17-point lead over a generic Republican in the NBC/Journal survey, the race is m.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Nov 7, 2007 @ 12:22am neoform

CNN -- Two prominent supporters of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign in South Carolina called state Democratic Party officials and urged them to keep funnyman Stephen Colbert's name off the primary ballot, accor.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Nov 1, 2007 @ 5:52pm neoform

MTV -- So much for being South Carolina's favorite son: Despite polling ahead of at least three of the candidates who've been stumping hard in South Carolina, Comedy Central faux conservative Stephen Colbert's bid to get on the ballot for the upcoming Democratic.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jan 27, 2007 @ 10:36am neoform

Wilmington Star -- Citing the controversy surrounding the Dakota Fanning film Hounddog, the leader of the state Senate Republicans says he wants the government to review scripts before cameras start rolling in North Carolina... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jan 16, 2007 @ 9:37am mrmdc

Newsday -- U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., called for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies at the South Carolina Statehouse as he attended a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial event at a Greenville church Sunday night... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jan 6, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- The public will get the other side of the story of the South Carolina governor sex scandal sooner, as the governor's estranged wife Jenny Sanford's memoir publishing date has been moved up... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Sep 10, 2009 @ 9:02am neoform

CNN -- The chairwoman of the GOP in South Carolina is expected to seek a party resolution calling for the resignation of Gov. Mark Sanford, a source familiar with the plans told CNN... Read More