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: 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. 21, 2022 at 5:53 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a dog attack that injured an elderly woman.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2022 at 11:37 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department is continuing a months-long search for a missing teenager.
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. 18, 2022 at 8:03 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s Democratic candidate for governor announced Saturday he has tested positive for COVID four days after his primary victory.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 11:45 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Anna Harris, Melissa Rademaker and Dylan Leatherwood
As faith groups across the state and the nation commemorate seven years since the Charleston church shooting, Mother Emanuel AME, the site of the tragedy, kicked off a weekend of special events and a nationwide Bible study.
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. 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. 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 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. 28, 2022 at 11:10 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Orangeburg County Sheriff is expected to provide updates in the drive-by shooting that killed a child earlier this month.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 12:58 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Ray Rivera
The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the man charged in the death of Brittanee Drexel confessed to the crime.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 11:53 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Tom Foreman Jr.
Maggie Peterson-Mancuso, whose character on “The Andy Griffith Show” developed a memorable infatuation with Mayberry sheriff Andy Taylor, has died, her family said Monday.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 6:05 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office released surveillance footage showing a vehicle they want to identify in the Friday night drive-by shooting that killed a child.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 5:34 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Gas prices in the Palmetto State remained unchanged last week, holding at a per-gallon price that is nearly 50 cents higher than just a month ago.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 5:36 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Jeffrey Collins and Emilie Zuhowski
The family of two sisters killed in their tiny South Carolina town in 2010 wants to know why the man who confessed to their slayings has suddenly shown back up in the community.
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: Apr. 26, 2022 at 9:01 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A parent’s video shows children ducking for cover Monday night as gunfire erupted during a 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: Mar. 29, 2022 at 7:39 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Katie Kamin
The Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of a St. Matthews man in connection with a 1998 killing.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 at 4:14 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Coast Guard is asking boat owners to check their VHF Marine radios after reporting a series of “uncorrelated distress calls.”
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 at 9:36 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster will hold a news conference Monday afternoon on plans to simplify how school districts in the state receive funding.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 5:42 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A woman whom investigators say was stolen from a Florida hospital and raised by a woman in Colleton County asked a judge to reduce her kidnapper’s prison sentence.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2022 at 5:19 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The state of South Carolina will conduct a tornado drill Friday morning as part of its Severe Weather Awareness Week.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2022 at 6:17 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Joe Cunningham is again calling for the state’s General Assembly to temporarily suspend the state gas tax.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 4:34 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
For only the second time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, South Carolina recorded fewer than 1,000 first-time unemployment claims last week.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 12:24 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary and Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster praised the state’s law enforcement officers Thursday morning but said their wages are inadequate.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2022 at 7:04 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control will begin scaling back the number of agency-managed COVID-19 testing sites statewide beginning Tuesday.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 3:55 PM EST
|By Jeffrey Collins and Patrick Phillips
The Republican-dominated South Carolina House has unanimously passed a $600 million income tax cut in less than 15 minutes of debate.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 5:19 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A study conducted by a University of South Carolina economist put a nine-digit price tag on the economic impact of domestic violence for the state.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 5:43 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The average price for a gallon of gas in South Carolina rose nearly a dime last week.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2022 at 6:13 PM EST
|By Thomas Gruel and Patrick Phillips
A middle school student recorded in a video posted to social media striking a classmate at a Beaufort County school will be charged in the incident, police have confirmed.