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: 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. 30, 2022 at 5:53 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
A man has been charged after leading deputies on a pursuit across two counties with speeds reaching more than 100 mph Tuesday night.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 4:17 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Dorchester County high school football standout killed in a shooting earlier this month on the University of Virginia campus will be laid to rest Wednesday morning.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 8:12 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in South Carolina dropped 8.9 cents in the past week, according to GasBuddy’s survey of more than 3,000 gas stations.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 6:22 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Kevin Bilodeau
Authorities have confirmed a former Woodland High School student was one of three University of Virginia students killed Sunday night in a shooting on campus.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 2:14 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina GOP said Tuesday’s midterm elections proved what they already know: that the Palmetto State is a “solid Republican state.”
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 11:41 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Jeffrey Collins
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott won reelection Tuesday to what he said will be his last term serving South Carolina, but the only Black Republican in the Senate may have bigger political ambitions yet.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 10:33 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn will return to Congress for his 16th term after Tuesday’s election victory.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2022 at 11:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
When it comes to desserts, South Carolina is home to one of Oprah Winfrey’s favorites.
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. 31, 2022 at 8:53 AM EDT
|By Marissa Lute and Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Coroner’s Office has identified a 56-year-old man who deputies say jumped off an overpass during a late-night traffic stop Friday and was struck by multiple vehicles on I-26.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2022 at 6:23 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Williamsburg County and Kingstree Fire Departments are warning consumers not to use kerosene purchased at a Kingstree business.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2022 at 11:24 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina voters who want to beat the Election Day rush can cast their ballots beginning Monday.
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. 9, 2022 at 12:18 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Orangeburg County deputies are searching for a teen they say attacked a convenience store clerk after she was not allowed to purchase tobacco.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2022 at 2:40 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Georgetown County deputies say a boat ramp near Murrells Inlet closed early Saturday morning has reopened.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2022 at 10:17 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Berkeley County Coroner’s Office is investigating the discovery of bones and what appears to be an old coffin in the Wando River Friday.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 4:10 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A North Charleston High School student who was struck Tuesday morning by an out-of-control school bus is being hailed a hero.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 12:55 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Supreme Court says it will hear an appeal on a judge’s ruling that executions by electric chair or firing squad violate the state constitution.
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 11:34 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control said one person in South Carolina has died from the West Nile Virus, marking the first death from the virus in the state this year.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 11:30 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Michal Higdon and Emilie Zuhowski
Berkeley County deputies say no arrest has been made so far in a double shooting at a Ladson office of the Department of Motor Vehicles, despite a photo of an apparent arrest being shared online.
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 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. 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. 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. 15, 2022 at 7:27 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A Savannah man is out on bond after police say he assaulted a pregnant woman.
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. 9, 2022 at 2:40 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster criticized a law Democrats say is designed to address record inflation.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 7:43 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Two former Goose Creek Police officers were arrested after one was accused of an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old high school student, the State Law Enforcement Division said.
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: Aug. 1, 2022 at 5:51 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Prices in South Carolina are 61.1 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 80.5 cents per gallon higher than a year ago.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 12:42 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and The Associated Press
South Carolina is one of 17 states that is asking Google to reject a request from federal lawmakers to limit anti-abortion pregnancy clinics in abortion-related search results.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 8:03 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Elisheva Wimberly
South Carolina law enforcement officers are searching for a vehicle in an endangered person case.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 11:07 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
Former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty to state charges that he murdered his wife and son.
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 5:26 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Georgetown Police confirmed Tuesday the suspect in an armed robbery died in a shooting involving a Georgetown Police officer later that same day.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 5:23 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says it has charged an Orangeburg man with multiple charges in a June shooting in Bamberg County.
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 4:23 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Georgetown County’s sheriff honored a 12-year-old boy who called 911 when he saw a man who seemed to be in medical distress.
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. 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. 12, 2022 at 6:16 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A state lawmaker is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to look into what he calls a discrepancy in gasoline prices in Georgetown County compared with neighboring Horry and Charleston Counties.
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.
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