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. 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. 26, 2022 at 9:27 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Miss Hartsville took home top honors at the Miss South Carolina 2022 pageant Saturday night in Columbia.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2022 at 9:23 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake early Sunday morning in Kershaw County.
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 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. 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. 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. 18, 2022 at 11:32 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Anna Harris
The Charleston community remembered the nine city firefighters who died while battling a massive furniture store fire in West Ashley Saturday.
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 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. 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. 10, 2022 at 10:08 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed a deputy facing three charges in a fatal crash that killed three Colleton County women has been fired from her job.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2022 at 5:57 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A judge denied bond for a Charleston man who was arrested Friday in a mass shooting on May 30 that left 9 people wounded and three others injured.
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 5:47 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill his office says protects the state’s places of worship from government overreach and forced closure during states of emergency.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2022 at 5:45 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a South Carolina Democratic Party dinner Friday.
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. 29, 2022 at 5:30 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Voters will be able to take advantage of the state’s new early voting starting on Tuesday.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 5:27 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
An Orangeburg County community will come together this weekend to remember the 6-year-old boy who died May 13 in a drive-by shooting.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 6:34 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The mother of a man once named in the investigation of the 2009 disappearance of Brittanee Drexel spoke publicly for the first time since her son was cleared of involvement in the case.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 12:33 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that will require transgender athletes to compete on teams that represent their birth-assigned gender.
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. 16, 2022 at 12:28 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Orangeburg County Coroner’s Office released the identity of the child who was fatally shot late Friday night in Orangeburg County.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 10:38 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s state treasurer said babies born on the last Sunday of May this year will get an extra jump on their college savings.
Updated: May. 14, 2022 at 7:24 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Rey Llerena
Charleston County deputies say two people died early Saturday morning after their vehicle, which witnesses said was involved in a drive-by shooting, crashed into a tree.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 4:31 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A judge set bond Thursday morning for the medical doctor and former Lowcountry substitute teacher arrested last week in Alabama in the alleged sexual assault of a Charleston County teen.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 6:54 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Rey Llerena
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office says no arrests have been made so far following a fight Friday morning between a school bus driver and a parent in Hollywood.
Updated: May. 7, 2022 at 7:38 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A beloved four-legged volunteer at MUSC is able to overcome a disability and continue his work spreading cheer among patients.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 6:18 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Thousands of South Carolina College students will walk across stages to receive their diplomas Friday and Saturday.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 4:10 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A medical doctor and former Lowcountry substitute teacher was arrested Wednesday in Alabama and will face a charge in the alleged sexual assault of a Charleston County teen, deputies say.
Updated: May. 4, 2022 at 5:26 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Joe Cunningham criticized Gov. Henry McMaster and the state legislature after lawmakers tabled a bill that would legalize medical marijuana.
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 5:17 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office released photos of a dog they say was shot in the face and left for dead in a ditch.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 3:37 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Leaders across South Carolina, along with those hoping to unseat them, are releasing statements on a leaked document that suggests the landmark Roe v. Wade decision could be overturned.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 4:31 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Some members of the Black clergy in the Lowcountry are voicing concerns that U.S. Sen. Tim Scott refused to meet with them about their concerns over the confirmation process of the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 5:46 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Lisa Weismann
With two weeks left in the current legislative session, groups held a news conference on the steps of the South Carolina Statehouse to call for last-minute action to pass a hate crimes bill.
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.
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. 24, 2022 at 6:48 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Nevin Smith and WIS News 10 Staff
Cayce’s mayor gave a brief statement on an early-morning shooting that has claimed the life of one of the city’s police officers.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2022 at 5:35 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Department of Corrections reported receiving its second order of execution this month for a death row inmate.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 1:40 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s campaign said Monday he has reached “a major fundraising milestone.”
Updated: Apr. 7, 2022 at 3:20 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s two Republican senators defended their votes opposing the nomination of the first Black woman to the Supreme Court Thursday.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 4:12 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said he agrees with President Joe Biden’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 5:21 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office released edited surveillance footage of a man they say urinated on the doors of a church Sunday.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 1:07 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina wildlife officers are using the recent death of a bald eagle to remind people that illegal dumping can have unintended consequences.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 1:04 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The State Law Enforcement Division and Colleton County deputies are investigating a shooting that injured five people at what dispatchers described as a “chaotic scene.”
Updated: Mar. 31, 2022 at 11:10 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Mount Pleasant investigators say a man faces criminal charges after a grisly discovery inside a trailer in Mount Pleasant.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 2:37 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows President Joe Biden’s policies are the number one thing Americans blame for the recent rise in gas prices.