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: Jan. 31, 2023 at 6:04 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
The trial of Alex Murdaugh continued Tuesday morning with the defense cross-examining a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigator.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 4:51 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Marissa Lute
Opening statements from each side show vastly different interpretations of what the state is calling key evidence in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2023 at 3:58 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Hayley Boland and Ann McGill
Former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh’s highly-anticipated murder trial will begin with jury selection Monday morning in Walterboro.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 12:42 PM EST
|By Anna Harris, Michael Allison, Bruce Smith and Patrick Phillips
People from around the Lowcountry are remembering one of its most prominent natives, Arthur Ravenel Jr., who died Monday at 95, his family confirmed.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2023 at 6:49 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
First responders in Beaufort County say they responded to a Saturday night crash but say the driver had already left the scene when they arrived.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 11:25 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A federal court has thrown out three newly-drawn South Carolina congressional districts after ruling they were drawn to intentionally disadvantage Black voters.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2023 at 12:11 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A South Carolina state senator released a statement after Lexington Police cited him for public intoxication early on New Year’s Morning.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2023 at 6:23 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
The remains were apparently sent from the municipality of Apatzingán, Michoacán, and addressed to South Carolina.
Updated: Dec. 31, 2022 at 12:08 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said they arrested an 18-year-old wanted in a burglary while executing a search warrant Friday afternoon.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 4:14 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The former CEO of Palmetto State Bank who was convicted on six charges last month is requesting a hearing on jury issues in his trial.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2022 at 6:21 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina prosecutors say they oppose a request to narrow details about a possible motive they will argue when prosecuting former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh for the killings of his wife and youngest son.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 5:16 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys met briefly Friday afternoon in a Richland County courtroom in a pretrial hearing for former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 8:48 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The defense team representing former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh have filed a motion demanding documents and files related to a key piece of evidence in Murdaugh’s upcoming murder trial.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 5:40 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A judge sentenced a man who entered a guilty plea in a 2019 North Charleston armed robbery attempt that ended in a deadly shooting.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 11:24 PM EST
|By James Pollard, Patrick Phillips and Elisheva Wimberly
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace has defeated her Democratic challenger to keep her House seat for a second term.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 7:01 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
In newly filed court documents, the state’s attorney general has provided the Alex Murdaugh defense team with critical information about the deaths of Murdaugh’s wife and son.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2022 at 4:22 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol, Nick Reagan and Patrick Phillips
A state circuit court judge mostly sided with the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office Thursday, denying motions filed by the defense team of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 5:45 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys representing prominent former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh are asking that a request for their client’s alibi in his murder trial be stricken.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2022 at 11:33 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys representing former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh have filed a new motion seeking evidence from prosecutors before he goes on trial for murder in January.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2022 at 6:57 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The trial of disgraced former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh has moved up one week according to court documents filed Friday.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 12:19 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The University of South Carolina confirmed Tuesday morning that it would move its game against South Carolina State University because of potential weather impacts from remnants of Hurricane Ian.
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.
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