Patrick Phillips
Digital Content Manager
Charleston, SC
Patrick is the digital content manager for Live 5 News in Charleston.
He joined the Live 5 News team in October 2006 and has been managing the station's website since March 2014.
He began his broadcasting career in 1991 at WLTX-TV in Columbia and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Broadcasting.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 12:02 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A Johns Island man is facing two charges after police say he carjacked a man he met through Facebook Marketplace.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 9:04 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial signing Thursday for a bill that provides state employees with paid family leave for the birth, adoption or fostering of a child.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 4:13 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Alex Murdaugh’s defense team says prosecutors have audio and video recordings taken a short time before Murdaugh’s wife and son were shot to death.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 1:12 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Emily Van de Riet
A 5-year-old boy in South Carolina lost part of his leg and part of his hand in a lawn mower accident.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 at 3:30 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Between now and Sunday night, South Carolina is giving parents assistance with back-to-school shopping through an annual sales tax holiday weekend.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 8:07 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Palmetto State will give shoppers the chance to save on back-to-school and other items in a 72-hour tax-free holiday this weekend.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2022 at 5:32 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The sheriff of Richland County said Tuesday morning the father of twin boys who died after being left inside a vehicle will not face charges.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 5:51 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Blair Sabol and Steven Ardary
Former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will make his first court appearance Wednesday morning since being charged with the murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 11:07 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Debra Worley
The child was taken to the hospital but died from injuries suffered in the fall.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 5:21 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The mother of a 19-year-old found dead in 2015 said the grand jury indictment of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh in the killings of his own wife and son gives her hope for justice for her son’s case.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 1:07 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been charged with murder in the 2021 deaths of his wife and son.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 8:33 PM EDT
|By Mary Green and Patrick Phillips
A federal judge has lifted a block on South Carolina’s so-called “fetal heartbeat bill” in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 5:17 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Gunfire erupted in a downtown Charleston church seven years ago Friday night, leaving nine members of a historically-Black church dead.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 4:27 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Jeffrey Collins
South Carolina’s primary Tuesday will determine whether Republican Gov. Henry McMaster gets to run for a second full term and possibly become the longest-serving governor in the state’s history.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2022 at 5:57 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A judge denied bond for a Charleston man who was arrested Friday in a mass shooting on May 30 that left 9 people wounded and three others injured.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2022 at 4:56 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News Staff
A South Carolina sheriff revealed her deputy ran a stop sign before a crash that killed a mother and two daughters.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2022 at 1:10 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Police received a call at approximately 11:30 a.m. Thursday about children in a vehicle in a strip mall.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 6:34 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The mother of a man once named in the investigation of the 2009 disappearance of Brittanee Drexel spoke publicly for the first time since her son was cleared of involvement in the case.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 12:33 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that will require transgender athletes to compete on teams that represent their birth-assigned gender.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 11:53 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Tom Foreman Jr.
Maggie Peterson-Mancuso, whose character on “The Andy Griffith Show” developed a memorable infatuation with Mayberry sheriff Andy Taylor, has died, her family said Monday.
Updated: May. 4, 2022 at 5:56 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A South Carolina Grand Jury issued three indictments against suspended Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh and two others Wednesday.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 5:46 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Lisa Weismann
With two weeks left in the current legislative session, groups held a news conference on the steps of the South Carolina Statehouse to call for last-minute action to pass a hate crimes bill.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 9:01 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A parent’s video shows children ducking for cover Monday night as gunfire erupted during a youth baseball game in North Charleston.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 1:25 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
The sound of gunfire interrupted a youth baseball game in South Carolina Monday night.
Updated: Apr. 23, 2022 at 6:18 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Supreme Court has put another execution on hold, two days after temporarily blocking plans for a rare firing squad execution.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 4:12 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said he agrees with President Joe Biden’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2022 at 4:47 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott released a statement Tuesday after President Joe Biden signed Scott’s anti-lynching legislation into law.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2022 at 2:28 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The State Law Enforcement Division credits a Crime Stoppers tip to an arrest in a two-year arson investigation.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 5:42 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A woman whom investigators say was stolen from a Florida hospital and raised by a woman in Colleton County asked a judge to reduce her kidnapper’s prison sentence.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2022 at 6:35 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A man facing charges in connection with a string of wildfires in northern Berkeley County is expected to face a magistrate Friday.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2022 at 5:26 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Gov. Henry McMaster called on the entire Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to review a federal district court’s preliminary injunction of the state’s Fetal Heartbeat Act.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2022 at 7:30 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
The family of a 22-year-old Charleston man who died after being held at a Florida prison filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the warden and multiple corrections officers.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 8:30 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Tuesday a lower court decision to block a South Carolina law that bans abortions at six weeks.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 1:47 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Gov. Henry McMaster says the Palmetto State will take no part in punishing National Guardsmen who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2022 at 7:35 PM EST
|By Kamri Sylve and Patrick Phillips
The State Law Enforcement Division released the name of the Hemingway Police officer arrested in an officer-involved shooting Sunday morning.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2022 at 4:36 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control responded to what it called “issues with multiple COVID-19 testing vendors and reporting facilities for failures to process tests and report results and case counts.”
Updated: Jan. 17, 2022 at 12:11 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
One South Carolina Police Department decided to have a little fun as they dealt with this weekend’s winter storm.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2022 at 5:32 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a small quake in Richland County Tuesday night, the third in the Midlands in two days.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2022 at 5:30 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Emergency Management Division reported a total of three small quakes since Sunday, one of which was in the Ladson area.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2022 at 4:36 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Charleston County fell two slots in the total number of human trafficking victims reported statewide last year, but it remained in the top five counties, a new report states.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 at 3:23 PM EST
|By Amanda Alvarado, Patrick Phillips, Emilie Zuhowski and Cameron Bopp
Footage recorded by Brandon Fierro shows the moment the structure sways and then falls onto an Amazon delivery vehicle.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 at 7:31 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Just three days into the new year, the Palmetto State has reported its first earthquake in an area where seven others struck last week.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2021 at 6:40 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
An earthquake shook the ground Wednesday morning in northern Kershaw County, marking the fifth quake in the area since Monday.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2021 at 6:23 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Donations have helped a Lowcountry man provide a vehicles to a dozen people in need this holiday season.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2021 at 5:31 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
The interim president of South Carolina State University said the college is preparing for a historic visit from President Joe Biden on Friday.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2021 at 12:30 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Medical University of South Carolina confirmed the first three known cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 in the state.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 at 5:17 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Michal Higdon and Adam Mintzer
A judge set bond Monday morning for Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh along with several conditions in connection to 21 new charges filed against him last week.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 at 1:54 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Gray News staff and Summer Huechtker
Charleston County dispatchers received multiple calls at about 2:09 a.m. about a disturbance that ended in a shooting inside Players Place Billiards and Sports Bar.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2021 at 5:17 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s attorney general says the state has joined four other states and several businesses in filing paperwork to begin a court fight against a federal vaccine mandate.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2021 at 11:52 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Live 5 Web Staff
Gov. Henry McMaster has issued an executive order barring any state cabinet agency from issuing or enforcing any vaccine mandate.
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