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Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said on Sunday he is engaged to marry his Argentine girlfriend, Maria Belen Chapur.

Jenny Sanford, the wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, announced Friday morning that she and their sons will leave the governor's mansion in Columbia and settle in the Charleston area, a split that comes after the couple tried for seven weeks to mend their marriage.

When South Carolina's Commerce Department planned a trade mission to South America last year, Gov. Mark Sanford rejected a historic ...

A South Carolina official said there was no evidence that Gov. Mark Sanford violated any law when he visited his mistress.

Political fate shifts after admission of encounters with women in addition to Argentine mistress.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is admitting more encounters with his Argentine mistress than he previously has disclosed.

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.

The State of Columbia, S.C., scored its highest Web traffic day ever on Wednesday after getting the first interview with Gov. Mark Sanford about his bizarre trip to Argentina. The paper then drew more site visits when it revealed e-mails between the governor and his mistress.