MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina amusement park is paying tribute to Michael Jackson this weekend.

SC Governor Mark Sanford meets with his cabinet for the first time since returning from Argentina and admitting his affair with a woman there.  A spokesman says he’ll review that with his cabinet and then move on to other business.  Live Stream of the cabinet meeting starts at 12:30 p.m.

About 6 months ago, an anonymous tipster sent The State newspaper in Columbia copies of e-mail messages supposedly exchanged between Governor Mark SAnford and a woman named Maria in Argentina. 

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was with his family Thursday as legal and ethical questions swirled over his secret trip to see a woman in Argentina with whom he admitted an affair.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford faced legal and ethical questions Thursday as he fought to save his job after admitting having an affair with a woman from Argentina.

NEW YORK (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s mysterious disappearance from his state, topped with misinformation from his staff about where he had gone and what he’d been doing, is the latest sign that Republican governors — once thought to be President Obama’s most credible adversaries — haven’t quite lived up to their billing.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is resurfacing after a mystery five-day absence and plans to speak to reporters for the first time.

Part of Park Plaza is getting a makeover, and this time the rest of the shopping center’s tenants are on board. The south Hilton Head Island shopping center with a notoriously confusing parking lot will be reconfigured once Harris Teeter builds its new store.

The Barrel Monster, a statue made of orange and white construction barrels, only had a few hours of life on the road but lives on on Facebook.

One of the main goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was to save or create 3.5 million jobs nationwide. But after $332 million in stimulus money has made it to South Carolina so far, it isn’t creating any jobs, says Richard Eckstrom, SC Comptroller General and chairman of the state Stimulus Oversight Task Force.

The state of South Carolina has put up new highway signs and is running public service announcements on television to make sure everyone knows about a law that’s been on the book for years.

The South Carolina NAACP called a news conference Wednesday to demand a proper apology from Rusty DePass, former chairman of the state Election Commission and former chairman of the Richland County Republican Party, whose Internet posting suggested a gorilla that escaped from the Columbia zoo was an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Officials say a jet carrying 53 people from South Carolina to Washington, D.C., has landed safely in Charleston after the pilot reported a mechanical problem.

AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — A wounded suspect who walked away from an Augusta, Ga., hospital while on a smoke break returned to the facility and is now being guarded by South Carolina and Georgia deputies.

The Richland County Sheriff’s Department is the first in the state to begin using a new technology to find stolen cars and stolen license tags. It’s a camera and computer system called the Mobile Plate Hunter 900, which uses two cameras mounted on the patrol car and a laptop computer inside.