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Wednesday, October 24, 2012  Updated with video: Richard Mourdock criticized over rape, pregnancy comments made during Indiana Senate candidate debate.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012  Deadline adds pressure on Missouri congressman to abandon Senate race after rape comment furor

Monday, August 20, 2012  Updated with video: US Senate candidate, Missouri congressman Todd Akin stirs outcry with comments on rape, pregnancy

Friday, May 11, 2012  An attorney for a state Senate candidate is abandoning his effort to reinstate nearly 200 candidates left off of June 12 primary ballots by a South Carolina Supreme Court decision.

Tuesday, May 08, 2012  A federal judge has scheduled a hearing for a federal lawsuit over a South Carolina Supreme Court decision that removed nearly 200 candidates from ballots for the state's June 12 primaries.

Friday, June 10, 2011  Former U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene has officially decided to enter a pretrial intervention program that will drop a misdemeanor obscenity charge against him as long as he completes community service and counseling.  Prosecutors confirmed Friday that Greene had enrolled in the program.

Sunday, September 12, 2010  Establishment Republicans have been relentless, calling Christine O'Donnell unelectable, a fraud and a liar

Monday, August 30, 2010  U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene is taking his longshot campaign to northern South Carolina on Monday.

Monday, August 23, 2010  Alvin Greene plays golf for the first time Sunday in Murrells Inlet.

Friday, July 23, 2010  Greene is campaigning based on the message, "Keep South Carolinians in their homes and give them jobs."  Donna Warren, of the Warren Group, tells the Free Times Newspaper their helping Greene's campaign for free.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010  Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene is scheduled to speak to the NAACP in Manning this weekend.   Do you care about what he has to say or have you heard enough from him?

Wednesday, June 16, 2010  Republican Rep. Chip Limehouse says in a letter sent Tuesday to the State Law Enforcement Division he has questions about how Alvin Greene came up with the more than $10,000 needed to file as a U.S. Senate candidate.