Author: Associated Press

Sanford, other GOP Trump challengers slow to raise money for primary

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Mark Sanford, the most prominent primary challenger to President Donald Trump, has said he won’t solicit contributions from his longtime donor base until he’s “proven a measure of electoral success.” Bill Kristol has yet to fully activate a super PAC aimed at hurting Trump’s reelection chances. And Stuart Stevens, the top strategist for Sen. Mitt Romney’s 2012…

Scientists link 21 beached pilot whales dead in Georgia and SC

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) – Scientists say they have linked four pilot whales found dead on the coast of South Carolina with 17 whales of the same species that died days earlier after beaching themselves in Georgia. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources said in a news release Monday that photographs of dorsal fins confirmed the 21 dead whales belonged to…

SC to hold Silent Witness domestic violence ceremony Tuesday

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina’s attorney general will again remember victims of domestic violence with a Statehouse memorial ceremony. Attorney General Alan Wilson will read the name of every person killed in the state in a domestic violence incident Tuesday while a bell tolls and a life-sized silhouette representing the victim is carried to the Statehouse steps. The Attorney…