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Senators investigating the Secret Service prostitution scandal said Wednesday that dozens of reported episodes of misconduct by agents point to a culture of carousing in the agency and urged Director Mark Sullivan to get past his insistence that the romp in Cartagena was a one-time mistake....

Testimony Wednesday for a Senate committee in Washington will be the director’s first public comments on the prostitution scandal in Colombia last month.

A French prosecutor on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a Washington hotel by former IMF chief and one-time French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

The White House's top counterterrorism adviser says the Secret Service scandal did not expose weak spots in the president's security.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate committee Wednesday that she retains full confidence in Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan in the wake of the alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia that has resulted in nine members resigning or being forced out of the agency.

Two more Secret Service employees have resigned and another two have been cleared as part of the ongoing prostitution scandal investigation.

There is nothing good to say about a scandal involving 12 Secret Service agents in a foreign country in advance of a presidential trip with 20 prostitutes and too much liquor.

A total of 23 Secret Service and military personnel have now been implicated in this month's prostitution scandal in Colombia.

The resignations would raise to six the number of members of the Secret Service forced out in the prostitution case.

Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino told his boss that his affair with a woman he later hired as an assistant began with a kiss last fall and ended sometime in February when the two decided to simply be friends, according to documents released Thursday....