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Nikki Haley took her campaign to the northern part of South Carolina, touting elements of her newly released jobs plan and telling a crowd of 400 that she is running to “put common sense back in South Carolina.” (more)

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) — A man is behind bars for committing “lewd acts” with a mannequin in a public park Sunday morning. (more)

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The White House has quietly launched an effort to confront the political backlash along the Gulf Coast over its handling of the BP oil spill – giving special attention to Florida, the only state in the region President Barack Obama won in 2008 and one he will need again when he runs for re-election in 2012. (more)

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) has decided she will not run to replace Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), three sources familiar with her plans said Tuesday night. (more)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Time is running out for legislation that would set a fall vote for the seat held by the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd after it sat idle Sunday. (more)

In six states — Kentucky, Nevada, Florida, Utah, Colorado and Minnesota — tea-party-backed Republican Senate candidates have won nomination or are favored in upcoming primaries. They are attracting outsize attention not only from Democrats and the media, but from conservative leaders such as former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Fox News host Glenn Beck. (more)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sources tell The Associated Press that Carte Goodwin will be Gov. Joe Manchin’s temporary appointee to the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s seat. (more)

(CNN) — West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin will announce on Friday his pick to temporarily fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) – A sweeping overhaul of the nation’s financial regulations stands on the verge of reaching President Barack Obama’s desk after a year of partisan struggles and delicate cross-party courtships that promised more and delivered less. (more)

U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint said Tuesday he wouldn’t rule out seeking an unspecified Senate leadership position but dismissed recurring speculation that he could challenge Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell as the leader of Senate Republicans. (more)

The “Draft Joe” movement has begun. (more)

On Saturday night, April 24, 2010, five days before John Edwards’s mistress Rielle Hunter sat down with Oprah to talk about the by-then-infamous sex tape and other embarrassments that had destroyed his political career, the former presidential candidate showed up at the West End Wine Bar in downtown Durham, North Carolina. It was around ten o’clock, and Edwards wanted a glass of wine after finishing dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant. (more)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Tennessee tourism officials see gold in them there hills where moonshine stills once bubbled and bootleggers hauled illegal whiskey in fast cars. They are trying to lure free-spending visitors to retrace the mountain roads where “white lightning” helped give birth to NASCAR. (more)

Authorities have arrested a California woman they say flew to Ohio on a private jet with 506 pounds of marijuana in 13 suitcases. (more)

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Looking for the savior of the Big 12? Follow the money. (more)

Every year, countless numbers of Africans risk their health and their lives drinking illegal alcohol. (more)

LOUISVILLE — The push to integrate Kentucky’s private social clubs, whose members clung to old notions of Southern white privilege for decades after the end of Jim Crow, began in the early 1990s with a lone, quiet protest: At lunchtime on days when the weather was nice, a black preacher and civil rights activist named Louis Coleman would put up a folding card table in front of one of the many unofficially restricted clubs here; set it with a tablecloth, china and candles; and dine on buns and lemonade. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville man has been charged with indecent exposure after witnesses said he masturbated in front of them. (more)

AUSTIN — Texas lawmakers are closely watching Arizona’s get-tough immigration law, with Democrats saying the legislation is wrongheaded while some Republicans say they’ll push for similar action here. (more)

WASHINGTON—Sen. John Cornyn, who is spearheading the Republicans’ campaign to take back the Senate, is on a roll. The GOP snatched a seat in Massachusetts and polls favor Republicans in many key states. (more)