A South Carolina ethics official says Gov. Mark Sanford wants to report previously unrecorded flights he took on planes owned by friends and campaign donors.

The South Carolina State Ethics Commission said Wednesday that Gov. Mark Sanford should face a hearing on ethics claims tied to his government travel and finances.

University of South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar says no South Carolina governor has ever been impeached and there’s been only one previous attempt.

The first step in the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford happens Tuesday, November 17th, the first day for pre-filing bills in the South Carolina House of Representatives.

Gov. Mark Sanford is trying to block the release of that report, saying it would be unfair to him because it would not include his side and the House would use it for impeachment proceedings.

Lawyers representing Gov. Mark Sanford in an ethics investigation are asking the state Supreme Court to keep the probe out of the hands of a Legislature expected to consider impeaching him.

The estranged wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is writing a memoir.  Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House Inc., said Tuesday it will publish Jenny Sanford’s “inspirational memoir” in May 2010.

The Laurens and Newberry County Republican parties will hold the “First in the State GOP Gubernatorial Debate” on at the Newberry Opera House Tuesday.

South Carolina’s unemployment rate of 11.8 percent in July was one of the highest in the country.

A letter from the 60 Republican lawmakers asking the governor to leave office was delivered to Sanford shortly after noon Wednesday.

The fight between South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer and Gov. Mark Sanford took on a different tone after accusations that Sanford supporters are spreading rumors that Bauer is gay.

The governor’s lawyer told the Greenville News, that South Carolina’s comptroller general in 1987 authorized state officials to buy business-class airline tickets for international trips.

While many state representatives say Gov. Mark Sanford should be removed from office for some of his moral errors and possible ethical mistakes, several members of the House of Representatives say he is hurting the state’s economy, another reason why Sanford should not remain as governor.

Republican representatives call for Governor Sanford to resign or be impeached and not one legislator defended the governor at the GOP’s annual caucus meeting this morning in Myrtle Beach.

A man walked into a Lions Club meeting uninvited and told South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford he should resign.