Week In Review

South Carolina’s 2026 election cycle made history - with Democrats winning their first statewide race in twenty years and capturing their first U.S. Senate victory since 1998. The Palmetto State’s perpetual minority party also flipped a congressional district - and ten seats in the S.C. House of Representatives. All of a sudden, South Carolina is home to competitive elections. In our opening segment, founding editor Will Folks recaps the electoral upheaval - most notably the stunning ...

Attorneys for accused killer Alex Murdaugh want the murder indictments secured against him four years ago thrown out - arguing state investigators lied, fabricated evidence and leaked those lies and fabrications to the media ahead of time to drive public opinion. In their most aggressive filing yet ahead of Murdaugh’s April 2027 retrial, attorneys for the disbarred Lowcountry lawyer say state investigators fabricated blood spatter evidence and lied to multiple grand juries about it (and also...

No formal Week in Review (WIR) this Saturday as we’re preparing for the Halloween office party, but FITSNews founding editor Will Folks still wanted to catch viewers up on what happened and what’s ahead. First up is the 2026 midterms. Decision day is Tuesday (Nov. 3), and FITSNews will have team coverage on election night from the watch parties of Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Annie Andrews to those of Republican gubernatorial nominee Alan Wilson and U.S. Sen. Darline Graham (Nordone). The...

South Carolina is hurtling toward another pivotal general election - one featuring a surprisingly competitive race for the United States Senate. Democrat candidate Annie Andrews visited the FITSNews studio this week for an in-depth conversation with our founding editor as she challenges Darline Graham Nordone - sister of the late U.S. senator Lindsey Graham. Polls show Nordone - the GOP nominee for the seat vacated by her late brother’s death - locked in an extremely close race with Andrews...

Will Folks and Jenn Wood break down Friday’s pretrial hearing in Lexington for Alex Murdaugh’s double murder retrial. Judge Debra McCaslin ran out of patience with both sides. Frustrated by the constant bickering between prosecutors and the defense, she told the attorneys to stop rehashing grievances from the first trial and barred both sides from filing any more motions to compel. Despite the judge’s warnings, the defense still dropped a bombshell. Dick Harpootlian revealed a 2021 intervie...