WIFE DEFEATS EX IN SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE RACE.

The divorce court and the lawyers have yet to divide up the property, but voters let Shirley Hinson keep her statehouse seat. In a bitter primary race that became entangled with the divorce, the two-term state representative defeated her estranged husband to win the GOP nomination for her suburban district about 20 miles from Charleston. "I'm thrilled. I couldn't be happier. And I'm glad it's over," Shirley Hinson said. "It says negative campaigning is not what the people want. I have always run a positive campaign." Shirley Hinson captured 52 percent of the vote in the runoff for the Republican nomination. The win is tantamount to election because Democrats did not offer a candidate. The defeated Hinson said he would do whatever he could to support his estranged wife. "We had many years of a very good marriage," he said.