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. 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. 12, 2022 at 7:35 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys representing a consulting company say they are taking legal action against former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh and Bank of America.
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. 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. 19, 2022 at 8:28 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Nick Reagan
Former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh faces new indictments, bringing the total number of charges against him to 90, the state’s attorney general announced Friday morning.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 11:21 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s highest court issued a temporary injunction Wednesday that will block the state’s fetal heartbeat law.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 4:46 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
A lawyer representing former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh told reporters Wednesday morning the state is “hiding the ball” and hasn’t handed over any evidence they have in the deaths of Murdaugh’s wife and son.
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. 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: Aug. 8, 2022 at 11:54 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Beaufort County Council voted Monday night to let voters decide whether to approve a 2-year, one-percent sales tax on the November ballot.
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: Aug. 1, 2022 at 9:21 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Joe Cunningham has chosen a civil litigator who flew combat missions in Iraq to be his running mate.
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. 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: 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. 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. 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. 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. 19, 2022 at 7:43 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Colleton County deputies are investigating an early-morning shooting at a nightclub in the Walterboro area that left two people dead and two others wounded.
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. 15, 2022 at 1:42 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Voters decided key races in Tuesday’s state primaries, selecting the two candidates who will face off for governor and settling a battle in the First Congressional district.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 6:40 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Meg Kinnard
Lowcountry voters are selecting between an incumbent who defied former President Donald Trump and a challenger who received his endorsement in the First Congressional District race.
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. 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. 5, 2022 at 11:34 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The attorney representing the family of a man killed in a 2011 crash who said hundreds of thousands of dollars were misappropriated is calling for justice after a prominent Lowcountry attorney and a banker were indicted this week.
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. 27, 2022 at 11:30 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster was put under anesthesia for about 10 minutes Wednesday to fix a minor irregular heartbeat.
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. 25, 2022 at 9:48 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office announced 13 arrests Monday in a multi-day operation to combat human trafficking.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 10:36 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is warning people to watch for potentially harmful, possibly lethal algal blooms in natural, untreated rivers and lakes.
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: Feb. 15, 2022 at 6:36 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorney Alex Murdaugh is one of several named in a pair of new lawsuits related to a fatal 2019 boat crash involving Murdaugh’s slain son, Paul.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2022 at 4:48 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The forecast of even a light accumulation of ice over the Lowcountry led many to ask about the possibility that bridges might close.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 at 4:57 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina set a new record high for a single-day new case count over the weekend, according to four days of new data released by the state health department Tuesday.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 at 2:25 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Two Green Pond residents were injured in a single-vehicle crash Monday afternoon, firefighters say.
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. 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 4:27 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A small plane crashed in a field near Edisto Island Tuesday afternoon.
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. 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 11:34 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Cameron Bopp, Emilie Zuhowski and Rey Llerena
Strong winds in downtown Charleston knocked down a large scaffolding outside an apartment building in downtown Charleston Monday afternoon.
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.
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