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. 23, 2023 at 6:57 AM EDT
|By Marissa Lute and Patrick Phillips
The former South Carolina attorney who pleaded guilty to state charges ranging from breach of trust with fraudulent intent, money laundering and criminal conspiracy will appeal his prison sentence.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2023 at 8:32 AM EDT
|By Pilar Briggs, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Emily Johnson
Joint Base Charleston confirmed Monday night that found a debris field now believed to be the site of an F-35 crash two hours northeast of the base.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT
|By Pilar Briggs, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Emily Johnson
Teams from various federal, state, county and local law enforcement agencies worked together to locate the U.S. Marine Corps F-35B.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 at 5:18 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and James Pollard
A judge has sentenced the former South Carolina attorney who pleaded guilty to state charges ranging from breach of trust with fraudulent intent, money laundering and criminal conspiracy.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2023 at 5:13 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office has filed a response to a request for a new murder trial for convicted killer Alex Murdaugh amid jury tampering allegations.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2023 at 3:37 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The disbarred Lowcountry attorney charged with scores of financial crimes and two others accused of conspiring with him are scheduled to appear before a judge Thursday in Beaufort County.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2023 at 11:26 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Emily Johnson and Pilar Briggs
The Berkeley County Coroner’s Office has identified a man who died Friday in a shootout with two deputies after a brief chase Friday morning at the top of the bridge over the Wando River on Interstate 526.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys who represent convicted killer Alex Murdaugh have filed a motion for a new trial amid allegations the Colleton County clerk of court tampered with the jury during Murdaugh’s six-week trial earlier this year.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2023 at 11:20 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys representing disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will reveal details of a motion they intend to file that seeks a new trial.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2023 at 6:29 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial signing Wednesday morning for a bill to provide paid parental leave for school district employees in South Carolina.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2023 at 10:58 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Thomas Gruel
The judge who found Charleston County’s sheriff broke the state’s Freedom of Information Act law ordered her to pay legal fees over a lawsuit on the matter.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2023 at 5:09 AM EDT
|By Emily Johnson, Michal Higdon and Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office met a court-imposed deadline to turn over jailhouse calls involving a suspect in a deadly crash that killed a newlywed bride on Folly Beach.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2023 at 2:01 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
The family of a newlywed bride killed in a crash hours after her wedding on Folly Beach said a judge’s decision to deny bond for a woman accused in the crash is a weight off their shoulders.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2023 at 4:25 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Orangeburg Department of Public Safety confirmed Friday afternoon it has located a woman reported kidnapped early Friday morning.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2023 at 5:12 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The man who leads the state’s Department of Employment and Workforce reported good news for the Palmetto State based on June numbers Friday.
Updated: Jul. 18, 2023 at 5:27 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Meg Kinnard
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis detailed a five-point plan for the military to accomplish what he describes as reversing the decline of the nation.
Updated: Jul. 17, 2023 at 6:07 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Jeroid John Price was brought back to the Palmetto State by corrections agents and agents with the State Law Enforcement Division from Rikers Island in New York state.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2023 at 10:45 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division released new information Tuesday morning about a weekend officer-involved shooting in the Orangeburg County town of Norway.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2023 at 3:00 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Court overturned ruling that blocked state actions to prohibit taxpayer funding to go to Planned Parenthood and other facilities that provided abortions.
Updated: May. 13, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Gov. Henry McMaster has instructed airport officials to report any incidents involving people living in the country without permission.
Updated: May. 11, 2023 at 11:11 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The sheriff of Orangeburg County says a telephone scam that has fooled people into handing over money in the past seems to be recirculating.
Updated: May. 10, 2023 at 5:57 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A new reward is being offered for information that leads to the capture of a convicted killer whose early release from prison was overturned.
Updated: May. 4, 2023 at 12:19 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The state of South Carolina will receive $2.2 million from a multistate settlement against the maker of TurboTax tax preparation software, the state’s attorney general says.
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 5:22 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Patrick Phillips
Folly Beach Police are releasing more details from a Friday night crash that killed a newlywed bride and seriously injured her husband and two others.
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 2:07 PM EDT
|By Brad Dickerson, Nikki Hauser, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Debra Worley
The driver accused of crashing into a golf cart and killing a bride just hours after her wedding reception was very unsteady and almost fell when asked to complete a field sobriety test, authorities said.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2023 at 8:01 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol, Patrick Phillips and Dylan Leatherwood
The South Carolina Supreme Court is vacating the order that released a convicted killer years before his sentence was up.
Updated: Apr. 17, 2023 at 7:19 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A judge did not issue a ruling Monday on a request to dismiss a lawsuit against three of the six defendants named in a lawsuit involving disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2023 at 8:12 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that the man accused of conspiring with former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh has been released from jail.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2023 at 5:18 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys representing the mother of Stephen Smith have announced a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for Smith’s death.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2023 at 5:26 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh has been moved to the statewide protective custody unit of a South Carolina maximum security prison.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 11:52 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys representing convicted killer Alex Murdaugh have filed the first step to appeal his conviction for the murders of his wife and son, court documents state.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2023 at 8:50 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Jeffrey Collins and James Pollard
The judge in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial has passed his sentence a day after a jury convicted the disbarred Lowcountry attorney of murdering his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2023 at 2:40 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Jonathan Drew & Michael Kunzelman
If there’s one thing most people in the Lowcountry seemed to agree on this week, it was the judge who presided over the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 10:12 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins and James Pollard
The defense attorneys who represented disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh during his murder trial plan to speak with reporters Friday morning.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 3:44 PM EST
|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 12:09 PM EST
|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 9:41 PM EST
|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. 2, 2023 at 7:11 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Michal Higdon
The jury in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial has convicted the disbarred Lowcountry attorney with the murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 4:58 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
Attorneys in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial are expected to deliver their closing arguments beginning Wednesday after jurors visited the scene of the killings of the disbarred Lowcountry attorney’s wife and son in June of 2021.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 5:29 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Cameron Bopp
Prosecutors are expected to call two rebuttal witnesses in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial Tuesday, a day after the defense rested its case.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 11:35 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Benedict Collete in Columbia Monday to discuss efforts to increase broadband access.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Molly McBride
The sixth week of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial began Monday morning at the Colleton County Courthouse with word that the jury will be able to see the rural property where Murdaugh’s wife and son were shot to death.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2023 at 7:19 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
Disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will return to the stand Friday morning to face more questions as he stands trial for murder.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 10:08 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Coroner’s Office has ruled the January death of attorney David Aylor as accidental.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 5:42 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Cameron Bopp and Jeffrey Collins
Alex Murdaugh told the judge overseeing his murder trial he does plan to testify in his own defense.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 at 5:17 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Blair Sabol
Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys could wrap up their case by the end of the week as they attempt to prove that the disbarred Lowcountry attorney did not kill his wife and youngest son.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 5:56 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Cameron Bopp
After a long weekend, the trial of Alex Murdaugh resumes Tuesday morning as his defense team works to prove he is not guilty of the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 3:00 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Jeffrey Collins
The murder trial of disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will not resume on Monday because of Presidents Day.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 4:41 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Melissa Rademaker
The state presented evidence from updated technology in the SUV that Alex Murdaugh was driving the night his wife and son were murdered on the 20th day of the Murdaugh trial.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 5:16 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Blair Sabol
Prosecutors are nearing the end of their case against Alex Murdaugh, the disbarred Lowcountry attorney charged with the 2021 murders of his wife and son.