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: Mar. 3, 2023 at 2:44 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips and Jordan Gartner
Authorities the man is facing more than a dozen assault charges for inappropriately touching young girls.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 11:09 AM CST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh received two consecutive life sentences Friday morning.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 8:41 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Gray News staff
Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of murder in the killings of his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 4:46 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Gray News staff
The 12 jurors and two alternate jurors assembled Wednesday morning for a trip to the Colleton County property where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death in June of 2021.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 5:29 AM CST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steve Ardary and Gray News staff
Murdaugh will be tried for two counts of murder and two weapons charges in the June 7, 2021, shooting deaths of his wife, 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh, and their youngest son, 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2023 at 5:23 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
The remains were apparently sent from the municipality of Apatzingán, Michoacán, and addressed to South Carolina.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 12:12 PM CDT
|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: Jul. 19, 2022 at 10:07 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Debra Worley
The child was taken to the hospital but died from injuries suffered in the fall.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 12:07 PM CDT
|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. 7, 2022 at 3:56 PM CDT
|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 12:10 PM CDT
|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: Apr. 26, 2022 at 12:25 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
The sound of gunfire interrupted a youth baseball game in South Carolina Monday night.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 at 2:23 PM CST
|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: Dec. 13, 2021 at 12:54 PM CST
|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. 9, 2021 at 5:07 AM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
A new poll finds a majority of Americans disapprove of the way President Joe Biden is handling his job so far.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2021 at 7:36 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Congressman called impeachment “a very serious matter.”
Updated: Jul. 20, 2021 at 11:40 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A small group protested outside a North Charleston fast food restaurant calling for higher wages.
Updated: May. 23, 2021 at 11:01 PM CDT
|By Lillian Donahue, Riley Bean and Patrick Phillips
North Charleston’s police chief called for the community to come forward with information on a shooting that left a teenager dead and 14 others wounded at an unauthorized concert.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2021 at 12:48 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham did not back down from comments he made on Fox News that America is “not a racist country.”
Updated: Apr. 16, 2021 at 12:51 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s unemployment rate dropped slightly in March, Department of Employment and Workforce officials said Friday, days ahead of a big change those filing claims for unemployment benefits will face.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2021 at 12:51 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive order Monday instructing the state’s Department of Social Services to prevent the federal government from placing undocumented, unaccompanied migrant children from the southern border into foster care and group homes.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2021 at 1:50 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The owner of a Ravenel butcher and taxidermy shop says his team found five dog tags, a shell casing, turtle shells and even a spark plug inside the stomach of a 12-foot alligator killed by a Lowcountry hunter.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2021 at 4:07 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina lawmakers are considering a proposal to prevent employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccines for workers.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2021 at 12:21 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
Emboldened by their majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats are making a new push to enact the first major new gun control laws in more than two decades and they’re starting with stricter background checks.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2021 at 9:41 AM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
Musician and Lowcountry native Darius Rucker quietly treated everyone dining at a restaurant he frequents to a free meal and also left a big tip for servers Sunday morning.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2021 at 1:55 PM CST
|By Adam Mintzer and Patrick Phillips
A committee in the South Carolina General Assembly is set to take the first in a series of votes on a fetal heartbeat bill.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2020 at 8:52 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
A South Carolina House member wants the make sure the Confederate Battle Flag no longer appears on state-issued license plates.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2020 at 11:14 AM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
An official with the Florida State Republican Party says he would love to see an airport close to President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago named for the commander-in-chief.
Updated: Dec. 25, 2020 at 5:38 AM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
This Christmas will be extra special for a Summerville family celebrating a milestone anniversary.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2020 at 8:26 AM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who just won reelection in Tuesday’s election, said he is donating a half-million dollars to President Donald Trump’s legal defense fund.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2020 at 3:26 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Nick Reagan
Wednesday morning’s graduation ceremony at Ashley Ridge High School will surely be one the school and the Class of 2020 won’t ever forget.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2020 at 1:07 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Mount Pleasant’s police chief took to Facebook Monday in response to negative responses he said he received to a photo showing him kneeling with a protester.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2020 at 8:10 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
Volunteers who searched for a yellow Lab mix missing for two weeks from a truck stolen in North Charleston shared hugs with her owner near the area where she was found dead early Sunday morning.
Updated: Jul. 10, 2019 at 5:09 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Paola Tristan Arruda
A former Bishop England High School teacher filed a lawsuit against the school, its principal and others because she says she was wrongfully fired over a social media post.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2019 at 10:08 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Kaitlin Stansell
Two Lowcountry recreational fishermen ended their fishing trip late Sunday afternoon with an unexpected catch.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2019 at 12:12 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
No criminal charges will be filed in the March death of a 10-year-old Colleton County girl who died after a fight in her classroom, the solicitor says.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2019 at 2:46 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The veteran North Charleston firefighter whose rescue of a three-month old puppy went viral on social media last weekend gave the puppy a forever home Saturday.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2019 at 6:58 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
As a community waits for word about the cause of death for a 10-year-old girl who died two days after a fight in her Colleton County school, attorneys for her family say the child’s loved ones are demanding transparency.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2019 at 7:17 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Ray Rivera
Flowers, balloons, and stuffed animals were left in front of a Colleton County elementary school where investigators say a fight in a classroom led to the death of a 10-year-old girl two days later.
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