Nancy Thurmond also called the rumors "absolutely false," telling The Post and Courier of Charleston that she and the senator were on good speaking terms and that she had never suggested that he clear the way for her to replace him.

"Pearl is a chic woman," he told The News and Courier in a 1973 interview.

"You'd figure that with everything going on with Bill Clinton, and South Carolina being an increasingly conservative Republican state, it would have been the opposite," Del Ali, the director of the poll, told The Post and Courier.

"Officers did break up a fight after the basketball game," police spokesman Charles Francis told the Post and Courier.

"They were scared for their lives," Lara Isaac, the mother of one of the attacked Wando 17-year-old's told the Post and Courier.

Rawl, the defeated candidate, told the Post and Courier.