SC gov changes mind, decides not to release records to AP proving he paid for trysts

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has backed out of a promise to release personal financial records to the media proving he did not use state money for trips to see his mistress.

SC gov changes his mind, decides not to release records proving he paid for trips to mistress

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has backed out of a promise to release personal financial records proving he did not use state money for trips to see his mistress.

SC governor gambles to ‘lay it all out’ about love affair; allies say it raises more questions

COLUMBIA, S.C. — After days of assuring the public he was firmly in control after admitting a scandalous affair, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford detailed other encounters with his Argentine “soul mate,” dalliances with women before her, and his struggle to salvage his 20-year marriage.

SC governor’s revelations prompt state attorney general to call for investigation

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s attorney general is asking for an investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford’s travels after he admitted seeing his mistress more times than previously disclosed.

AP NewsBreak: SC governor admits more encounters with Argentine mistress

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Tuesday that he saw his Argentine mistress more times than previously disclosed, including what was to be a farewell meeting in New York chaperoned by a spiritual adviser soon after his wife found out about the affair.

AP NewsBreak: SC governor admits more liaisons with Argentine mistress

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Tuesday that he saw his Argentine mistress more times than previously disclosed, including what was to be a farewell meeting in New York chaperoned by a spiritual adviser soon after his wife found out about the affair.

SC governor’s affair with Argentine woman changes political landscape for would-be successors

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Mark Sanford’s bombshell admission of an affair with an Argentine woman has touched off a delicate political dance among fellow South Carolina Republicans vying to replace him when his term ends.

Authorities: 8-year-old boy, 2 adult relatives drown at South Carolina pool

EASLEY, S.C. — An 8-year-old child and two adults have drowned in a swimming pool at a home in northwestern South Carolina.

SC gov’s affair with Argentine woman changes political landscape for would-be successors

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Mark Sanford’s bombshell admission of an affair with an Argentine woman has touched off a delicate political dance among fellow Republicans vying to replace him when his term ends.

Embattled SC governor ruled out resigning, resolves to finish term despite affair scandal

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he’s not quitting — though he considered it — despite intense scrutiny and criticism over his affair with a woman from Argentina.

AP NewsBreak: SC governor says he considered resigning over affair; will try to restore trust

SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford gave thought to quitting, retreating from public scrutiny to rebuild his life as the scandal of his extramarital affair with an Argentinian woman came out, he told The Associated Press Sunday.

AP NewsBreak: SC governor says he considered resigning over affair, but will remain in office

SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford considered resigning after admitting to an extramarital affair, the Republican revealed Sunday in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.

SC governor admits seeing mistress on state-funded trip was bad judgment, but was it illegal?

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits he used bad judgment when he secretly visited his mistress during a state-funded trip to Argentina last year. But did he break the law?

SC gov admits seeing mistress on state-funded trip was bad judgment, but was it illegal?

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits he used bad judgment when he secretly visited his mistress during a state-funded trip to Argentina last year. But did he break the law?

AP Exclusive: SC Gov. Mark Sanford’s mother says she is praying for son; cries for probe mount

BEAUFORT, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s mother said Saturday she is praying for her son as pressure mounts for a criminal probe into his secret trip to visit his lover in Argentina.

Know where your governor is? Most eagerly disclose whereabouts after SC gov’s secret trip

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry was raising money at campaign headquarters when an Associated Press reporter called his press staff to ask what he was doing. An hour later, he walked into AP’s statehouse bureau to show he was alive and well and not, say, in South America for a romantic rendezvous.

Critics question whether SC governor’s Argentina trips to visit mistress broke the law

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The details of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s secretive trips to visit his lover in South America aren’t just headline fodder or political kryptonite.

AP INTERVIEW: SC first lady warned gov not to see mistress again, shocked by Argentina trip

SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. — South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford sat in her oceanfront living room Friday, recalling how her husband repeatedly asked permission to visit his lover in the months after she discovered his affair.

Can he lead? In the wake of an extramarital affair, SC Gov. Sanford gets back to business

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It was a routine state Cabinet meeting, one with reports on declining tax revenues, the number of kids on Medicaid and an update on a drunken driving campaign.

AP INTERVIEW: SC 1st lady warned gov not to see mistress again, shocked by Argentina trip

SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. — When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford disappeared, his wife hoped he was really hiking on the Appalachian Trail as his staff had claimed. Like the rest of America, she was stunned to find out he had dared to go to Argentina to see his mistress, a trip she told him not to take.

SC governor tells state agency chiefs he’s sorry but everyone needs to keep working

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford got back to work Friday, but first he had some more apologizing to do.

South Carolina 1st lady says letter tipped her to husband’s affair; shocked by Argentina trip

SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. — South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she discovered her husband’s affair in January when she found a letter to the governor from his mistress.

AP Newsbreak: SC lieutenant governor doesn’t call for Mark Sanford to resign over affair

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The man who would replace South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford if he resigned over his affair with a woman in Argentina said Friday he wasn’t calling for the governor’s resignation, and would try to help him through the next year and a half.

AP Newsbreak: SC lieutenant governor says Mark Sanford should stay in office despite affair

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The man who would replace South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford if he resigned over his affair with a woman in Argentina says the governor should remain in office.

Disgraced South Carolina governor seeks to do damage control; politicians call for resignation

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits he used taxpayer money to see his mistress in Argentina and plans to repay the cash.

SC first lady says husband has to worry about his own career; she is focused on family

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says her cheating husband can worry about his own career. She is concerning herself with their four sons.

Unlike many jilted first ladies, Jenny Sanford didn’t stand by SC gov as he admitted affair

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jenny Sanford did not stand by her man.

SC gov says he’s focused on family after affair, shakes his head no when asked if he’ll resign

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford tells reporters staking out his beach home that he’s focusing on his family right now.

SC governor says he’ll pay back state for 2008 trade mission to Argentina when he saw mistress

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Thursday he will reimburse the state for a trade mission to Argentina last year during which he saw a woman with whom he acknowledges a yearlong affair.

RNC member asks for unfaithful SC governor to resign to spare party, practice his rhetoric

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A top South Carolina Republican leader says philandering Gov. Mark Sanford should resign and practice the philosophy he’s preached of holding GOP leaders accountable.