Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman joined five other Republican State Senators released a statement Tuesday calling on Governor Mark Sanford to resign.

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer speaks about Governor Sanford’s affair and disappearances.

The drumbeat for Gov. Mark Sanford to resign from office grew louder Tuesday after the governor admitted to more encounters with his mistress and several other women with whom he “crossed the line.”

A timeline of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s meetings with his Argentine mistress, Maria Belen Chapur.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)—Attorney General Henry McMaster says he has requested that the State Law Enforcement Division investigate Gov. Mark Sanford after revelations involving his extramarital affair.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)—South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he “crossed lines” with a handful of women other than his mistress - but never had sex with them.

Gov. Mark Sanford opened Monday’s meeting of the state Budget and Control Board by saying that John Rainey, a businessman who first approached Sanford about eight years ago and encouraged him to run for governor, had dinner with the Sanfords Sunday night and said, “I got it. You’ve apologized. You need to get on with governance.“

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s mother tells The Associated Press she is praying for her son. Speaking Saturday at her Beaufort home, 83-year-old Margaret Sanford expressed love and support for the governor who this week admitted having an affair with a woman in Argentina.

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.

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.

The governor was back at the capitol today apologizing to his cabinet. He also did not resign but told us later he would spead the wekend soul searching on the matter.

It was a difficult task for Mark Sanford to admit that he cheated on his wife with a woman in Argentina. Explaining the affair directly to his children may be equally challenging for Sanford.

Attorney General calls on all sides to “resist” using law enforcement and legal system for political purposes.

Her name was drawing more Google searches than Michael Jackson or Farrah Fawcett the morning after they died. Her picture was plastered across Friday’s front pages. An eight-year-old video from her brief career as a television producer ran over and over. But is she really the mystery lover of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford?

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating Governor Mark Sanford’s 2008 trip to Argentina, during which he began an extramarital affair with a Buenos Aires woman.