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: 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: May. 4, 2022 at 2:11 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and The Associated Press
A South Carolina judge approved a second round of refunds for customers of a utility that poured billions of dollars into two nuclear power plants that never produced a watt of power.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 7:52 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A federal grand jury indicted a 38-year-old Orangeburg man who allegedly pointed a firearm at an Orangeburg Cook-Out restaurant.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 4:58 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Orangeburg County deputies arrested three people, two of them juveniles, after what they call a “crime spree of violence.”
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 2:47 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s governor and one of his opponents talked about gun measures Tuesday, a day after shots were fired outside a North Charleston 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. 20, 2022 at 5:35 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Department of Corrections reported receiving its second order of execution this month for a death row inmate.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 7:17 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Officials with the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office say a missing man has been found. On Tuesday afternoon, deputies announced the man was located and was safe.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 4:52 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
South Carolina’s largest educator group gathered outside the State House Tuesday to call on state lawmakers to make easing teacher shortages across the state a priority.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 1:40 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s campaign said Monday he has reached “a major fundraising milestone.”
Updated: Apr. 10, 2022 at 10:09 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Senate Finance Committee is getting ready to work on the state budget with a big question to answer: How will it pay for $2 billion in proposed income tax cuts and rebates?
Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 5:21 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office released edited surveillance footage of a man they say urinated on the doors of a church Sunday.
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. 28, 2022 at 12:53 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The United States Geological Survey reported a minor earthquake in the Summerville area Monday morning.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2022 at 4:06 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Charleston Police say one of their cruisers was crushed by an empty container that flew off its truck Saturday morning.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2022 at 6:25 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A petroleum analyst says the public can have the biggest impact on gasoline prices, but only if they make a united effort.
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. 6, 2022 at 11:23 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Sunday marks the start of Severe Weather Awareness Week in South Carolina.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2022 at 6:14 PM EST
|By Meg Kinnard and Patrick Phillips
Attorneys for convicted church shooter Dylann Roof have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide how to handle disagreements over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 5:24 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The sheriff of Orangeburg County expressed thanks to law enforcement, prosecutors and victims’ families following convictions in the killings of four people in Holly Hill.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 6:43 PM EST
|By Mary Green and Patrick Phillips
South Carolina drivers could be hit with a ticket if their hands are on their phone while they’re behind the wheel if new legislation advanced Wednesday by the state Senate becomes law.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 6:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control will hold its regular COVID-19 briefing two hours early on Wednesday.
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. 22, 2022 at 12:36 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Gov. Henry McMaster has promoted the acting director of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice to the executive director role.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 7:32 PM EST
|By Amanda Shaw, Matt Kaufax and Patrick Phillips
Family members and a local activist are pushing for more help in the search for a missing Upstate woman.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 3:10 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Beaufort Police Department says a 5-year-old boy is in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 5:33 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
As President Joe Biden’s self-imposed deadline to name his nominee for the Supreme Court inches closer, South Carolina’s senior senator is putting his support behind a South Carolina judge.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2022 at 8:30 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina State University commemorated the 54th anniversary Tuesday of a deadly shooting at a 1968 Civil Rights protest that has come to be known as the Orangeburg Massacre.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2022 at 7:27 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The FBI is urging people to be mindful of scammers who pose as people looking for a long-term relationship so they can prey on victims.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2022 at 5:46 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A statue honoring the late Congressman John Lewis made a stop in South Carolina Thursday.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2022 at 4:56 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Communities in Schools of South Carolina says it will receive a portion of a $2.5 million donation from a philanthropist that will help students overcome obstacles that keep them from learning.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 9:58 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The president of the National Education Association says results of a new survey show the COVID-19 pandemic is making long-term problems causing shortages and burnout in the teaching profession much worse.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2022 at 12:09 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man in Colleton County in connection with the Christmas Day bombing of an Edisto Island ATM in what deputies described as a robbery attempt.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2022 at 9:07 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Gov. Henry McMaster told state lawmakers South Carolina’s state government is in the strongest fiscal condition ever and that the state has opportunity “like we have never seen before.”
Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 at 6:06 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster will deliver his annual State of the State speech, in which he lists priorities for the year and encourages state lawmakers to adopt similar priorities, on Wednesday night.
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. 11, 2022 at 5:48 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina lawmakers are opening their 2022 session with the familiar problem of the COVID-19 pandemic and a more unfamiliar problem of bank accounts bursting with money.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2022 at 5:16 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Blair Sabol and Live 5 Web Staff
After an hour and a half of testimony where the defense and prosecution called multiple people, State Grand Jury Presiding Judge Alison Renee Lee said she would issue a written order on a decision to reduce bond for Alex Murdaugh.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2022 at 6:39 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office released surveillance stills Tuesday of a man involved in an attempt to use an explosive device to access cash in an ATM.
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: Dec. 24, 2021 at 10:15 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Two civil rights groups are suing South Carolina over its newly drawn state House maps.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2021 at 5:01 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Deputies confirmed Friday night two males were shot to death Friday afternoon outside an Orangeburg home.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2021 at 1:31 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Three people are facing fines and possible community service for filming themselves digging up a loggerhead turtle nest on Folly Beach, the state’s Department of Natural Resources says.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2021 at 8:47 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A Fort Dorchester High School graduate who lost his class ring nearly two decades ago received a surprise thanks to the South Carolina Department of Transportation.
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. 15, 2021 at 5:15 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s two Republican senators are explaining why they opposed raising the nation’s debt limit.
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.