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.
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|By Patrick Phillips
Gov. Henry McMaster and state leaders will hold a briefing Wednesday afternoon on the state’s ongoing steps to prepare for remnants preps for remnants of Hurricane Ian expected to arrive by Friday.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 12:32 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Gov. Henry McMaster, the South Carolina Department of Corrections and its director have filed an appeal after a state judge ruled the state’s current methods of execution are unconstitutional.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 10:03 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
North Charleston Police arrested a man Tuesday who faces multiple charges after being accused of hacking into an Upstate city’s Verizon account and ordering thousands of dollars in cell phones.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 11:38 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Orangeburg County deputies say surveillance cameras captured a car they believe is involved in a catalytic converter theft.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 7:22 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The former chief executive officer of Palmetto State Bank indicted on multiple charges will appear before a federal judge in November.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2022 at 1:45 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Dylan Leatherwood
Prosecutors have filed a motion asking the defense attorneys for former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh to share the evidence they will use in his defense.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 11:26 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office released a still from surveillance footage showing a man they are trying to identify in an armed robbery.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 6:38 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The defense team for former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh said they will be able to prepare for the trial against their client now that evidence has been ordered to be released to them.
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. 24, 2022 at 6:54 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s governor called President Joe Biden’s plan to provide $10,000 in student debt cancellation for millions of Americans an example of the “liberal left’s ‘something for nothing’ entitlement culture.’”
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 7:14 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Lawyers for Parker’s Corporation are asking for a separate trial in a wrongful death lawsuit.
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. 10, 2022 at 4:15 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden arrived in Charleston County Wednesday afternoon for a vacation on Kiawah Island.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 11:54 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys representing former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh are asking a Hampton County judge to delay a lawsuit filed by the family of a teen killed in a boating crash.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2022 at 2:54 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s attorney general joined 21 other attorneys general in a lawsuit filed Tuesday over what calls new White House guidance on sex discrimination that threats schools and programs that rely on federal nutrition assistance.
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. 19, 2022 at 7:59 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and The Associated Press
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs to sit on the federal court typically seen as a proving ground for the nation’s highest bench.
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. 18, 2022 at 4:09 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Columbia Police Department is investigating the disappearance of a woman who set out for Alabama and has not been heard from for more than a week.
Updated: Jul. 18, 2022 at 3:57 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said a federal court has ruled in favor of the Palmetto State and 19 others, saying the government cannot force schools to follow new anti-discrimination rules.
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 11:35 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Colleton County Grand Jury handed down indictments Thursday morning against former attorney Alex Murdaugh in the June 7, 2021, shooting deaths of his wife and son.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 6:41 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Lisa Weismann
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control confirmed two additional cases of monkeypox in the Palmetto State.
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: Jul. 12, 2022 at 5:26 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Supreme Court released an order Tuesday disbaring former attorney Alex Murdaugh as faces dozens of criminal charges.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 4:05 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A South Carolina man who prosecutors say was the first rioter to open U.S. Capitol Rotunda doors to let a mob into the building entered a guilty plea Thursday to two felony charges.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 10:24 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A committee of state lawmakers will hold its first meeting next week as it begins work that could further limit abortion in the Palmetto State.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 5:07 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Witnesses reported a water spout off Folly Beach Tuesday as storms moved through the Lowcountry.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2022 at 7:15 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The man accused in an insurance plot involving prominent Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh has been arrested.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Gov. Henry McMaster says he vetoed 73 items from the state’s new spending plan.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 12:35 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control said Wednesday it is important that children six months of age and older be vaccinated against COVID-19 now that they have been approved for the vaccine.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 4:33 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Investigators in Orangeburg County are searching for a man who stole a vehicle from a funeral home Tuesday morning.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 11:25 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says he supports a new bill released Tuesday that could stand as Congress’s response to mass shootings in Texas and New York that shook the nation.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 6:16 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh has waived his rights to a hearing before the Supreme Court of South Carolina on being disbarred.
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. 16, 2022 at 6:29 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
The family of the woman who served as the housekeeper to a prominent Lowcountry attorney’s family for two decades is announcing the formation of a charity to help the community.
Updated: Jun. 12, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and The Associated Press
Contests for governor and the U.S. Senate are the marquee races in South Carolina’s primaries this week, but candidates are also competing for numerous other statewide seats.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2022 at 11:37 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office says a 39-year-old man whom they said could have been the victim of a kidnapping has been located, but they say questions remain.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 8:54 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A breakdown of reported mass shootings by a national group tracking them lists the Palmetto State as having the fifth-highest total in 2022 as of group that tracks mass shootings nationwide as of Tuesday.
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. 7, 2022 at 4:08 PM EDT
|By Lauren Quinlan and Patrick Phillips
It has been one year since the wife of a prominent Lowcountry attorney and her youngest son were found dead at the family’s property in rural Colleton County.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2022 at 11:53 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
North Charleston Police say five children have been hospitalized after being found nonresponsive in a vehicle.
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. 30, 2022 at 4:56 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Monday the 20-year-old man wanted in the May 13 drive-by shooting that killed a child in North is in custody.
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.
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