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(Gannett Washington Bureau) - The federal government must provide more economic aid to South Carolina, especially to help unemployed and low-income people weather the recession, an advocate told lawmakers Wednesday.
The Associated Press A cool-headed legal debate has replaced the once-passionate calls to oust Gov. Mark Sanford that began after his tearful summertime admission that he disappeared from the state to pursue an extramarital affair in Argentina.
South Carolina’s unemployment numbers have been on a recent rocket ride — 12.1 percent in October — so it’s no wonder some of the candidates for the state’s 2010 governor’s race have staked their claims in the fertile electoral soil of job creation.
South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.
South Carolina legislators upset with Gov. Mark Sanford's summer disappearance to see his lover in Argentina have wrapped up their first hearing over a measure that ultimately could remove him from office.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was hit Monday with formal charges of 37 ethics violations, further imperiling the career of a man once eyed as a Republican presidential contender who now fights for mere political survival in his home state. The litany of ethics charges - spending campaign contributions on himself, flying in state aircraft on personal trips, buying seat upgrades on commercial ...
Legislators irked for months over Gov. Mark Sanford's summertime vanishing act and his tearful revelation that he was in Argentina for a rendezvous with his lover plan to start debating a measure Tuesday that ultimately would remove him from office.
Albert Taylor Scroggins Jr. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Albert Taylor Scroggins Jr., a World War II veteran and former dean of the University of South Carolina's journalism school, died Saturday. He was 89.
South Carolina's Ethics Commission hits Gov. Mark Sanford with 37 violations.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will face an ethics panel to answer charges that he may have violated state law, which his lawyer said would give the once-popular politician a chance to present his side in an investigation into his travel and campaign finance practices.
Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:42 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:42 p.m. COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.