Topic: Doug Hampton

A watchdog group said Monday it won a "major victory" in its effort to obtain documents in the U.S. Justice Department's John Ensign sex scandal investigation.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Wednesday he would appoint Republican Rep. Dean Heller to serve the rest of John Ensign's term in the U.S. Senate.

U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., announced in Las Vegas Monday he will not see a third term in 2012.

A grand jury investigating U.S. Sen. John Ensign's adulterous affair has subpoenaed the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

A federal grand jury investigating possible criminal wrongdoing by a U.S. senator has subpoenaed the National Republican Senatorial Committee, officials said.

Previously unreported e-mails given to investigators suggest Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., violated a federal lobbying rule, but Ensign denies violating "any law."

U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., denied Tuesday that he violated ethics rules on behalf of a former aide who had learned the senator had an affair with his wife.

E-mails obtained by The Las Vegas Sun show Sen. John Ensign's top aides at the National Republican Senatorial Committee knew last summer about his affair.

Scandal-plagued U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., has lost a key aide who has been with him since he first came to Congress in 1995, political observers say.

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., has made another apology for an affair, saying he has kept quiet because of a possible ethics complaint.