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Gov. Mark Sanford heavily mixed business and pleasure during a three-day trip in 2008 to Argentina to visit his lover, records released by the S.C. Department of Commerce show.

A shuttered mill in northwestern South Carolina has caught fire, spewing clouds of dense, black smoke visible for miles.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down -- throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.

What if they held an election and nobody voted? Things weren't really that bad; Tuesday's town election attracted 2,130 voters, the most in many years.

South Carolina ranks fifth in the nation in adult obesity - with 29.7% of the state's adult residents qualifying as overweight.

Forget about the quandary South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford faces as a result of his personal indiscretions.

The wife of embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his affair with an Argentine woman "inexcusable" but said Thursday she is willing to forgive him.

The class we're talking about is the freshmen members of the Republican congress who were swept into power in the Gingrich Revolution in '94. Politico has the details: The sex scandals that have tarnished Sen.

Michael Jackson's glove, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Wimbledon on today's Round The Watercooler!

On Wednesday, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford reneged on a promise to release financial records of his trips to see his mistress.

For the second time in a week, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine defended his national travels for the Democratic Party on live radio.

STATEMENT BY SENATOR GLENN McCONNELL Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell issued the following statement today: 'The Governor's personal failings have become widely known in the last week.

BOEING the world's second-largest planemaker, is in talks to buy a plant that makes part of the fuselage of its long-delayed 787 Dreamliner, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer is helping a number of residents across the Grand Strand shape up in an effort to protect their hearts.

The major words relating to the disease are millennia old, but treatments for cancer in Southbridge just joined the 21st century.

We talk about sex. A lot. But all too often we don't know exactly what we're talking about.

AN open-minded individual, I am willing to support an adulterer for elective office.

Legal questions are beginning to surface as to if Gov. Mark Sanford broke the law when he left the state unattended and without someone in charge during a recent trip to Argentina.

One by one, potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates are fading away or facing challenges.

AAA Carolinas says it expects fewer people in South Carolina and North Carolina to travel by road for the July 4 holiday, in part because of the economy, high unemployment and financial uncertainty.