(Fixes fifth paragraph to make clear punishments were for each count) * Two unsuccessful runs for presidential nomination ...
AP | MARTHA WAGGONER and MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 06.01.2012
RALEIGH, N.C. — Now that he has survived his campaign corruption trial, John Edwards may face an even tougher fight to regain the public's respe...
AP | Posted 05.22.2012
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The jury deciding the fate of John Edwards in North Carolina has finished a second day of deliberations without reaching a ve...
AP | Posted 05.15.2012
RALEIGH, N.C. — Former presidential hopeful John Edwards' attorneys are presenting his defense against charges that he masterminded a scheme to ...
Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012
(Note obscenity in paragraph 6) * Scher says he told Edwards affair would destroy career * Pair reportedly clashed over ...
AP | MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 05.05.2012
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The lawyer for a wealthy heiress who provided secret payments intended to help John Edwards testified Friday that the former presi...
Posted 04.25.2012
Andrew Young, former aide to John Edwards, alleged on Tuesday that the former presidential candidate called Rielle Hunter a "crazy slut" when he learn...
Reuters | Posted 04.24.2012
(Adds details) By Colleen Jenkins GREENSBORO, N.C., April 23 (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the criminal campaign finance c...
Posted 04.24.2012
Things have cooled down between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, the New York Post reports. A server at a restaurant in Charlotte told the Post that...
AP | MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 04.24.2012
RALEIGH, N.C. — The purported sex tape of former presidential candidate John Edwards and his mistress will be destroyed within 30 days after a l...
AP | Posted 11.16.2011
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A federal judge has set the trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards to begin Jan. 30, a week earlier than the date pro...
AP | MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 12.31.2011
PITTSBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina judge has delayed a hearing on whether a former aide to John Edwards should be held in contempt. Andrew Youn...
AP | Posted 12.28.2011
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A federal judge in Greensboro may make a decision involving a contempt of court accusation in the case involving a purported ...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.27.2011
On Thursday, a federal judge in North Carolina refused to dismiss criminal charges against John Edwards, local station WTVD reports. U.S. District...
AP | RENEE ELDER | Posted 09.20.2011
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Lawyers for John Edwards' former mistress have filed a motion charging contempt of court against a former campaign aide and...
AP | TOM BREEN | Posted 09.13.2011
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards can begin in October, a federal judge said Thursday, despite argument...
AP | EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 06.29.2011
RALEIGH, N.C. — Former presidential candidate John Edwards will again be asked a series of questions he earlier refused to answer under oath, th...
Posted 05.25.2011
A week after John Edwards was called to testify on a sex tape supposedly depicting him involved in a sexual act with former campaign videographer and ...
National Enquirer | Posted 05.25.2011
In a shocking new twist to the biggest political scandal in recent history, RIELLEÂ HUNTER is being unfaithful to JOHNÂ EDWARDS, the father of their l...
Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: An Edwards family spokesman denies the below report, telling the Daily Beast, "I can tell you that it's not true." -- John Edwards has r...
The Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham & Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Just when the John Edwards sex scandal seemed to finally be receding from the public's collective conscious, his mistress, Rielle Hunter, decided to g...
Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011
Self-help books don't help me. But Hunter calls this one transformative. Who am I to argue? She transformed herself from barfly to well-paid campaign video-documentarian in a matter of weeks.
AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011
RALEIGH, N.C. — His once-prominent political career is buried and the turmoil of his marriage is playing out in public. Now, John Edwards is fac...
Reuters | Posted 06.03.2012