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: Mar. 3, 2023 at 2:44 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips and Jordan Gartner
Authorities the man is facing more than a dozen assault charges for inappropriately touching young girls.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 11:09 AM CST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh received two consecutive life sentences Friday morning.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 8:41 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Gray News staff
Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of murder in the killings of his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 4:46 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Gray News staff
The 12 jurors and two alternate jurors assembled Wednesday morning for a trip to the Colleton County property where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death in June of 2021.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 5:29 AM CST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steve Ardary and Gray News staff
Murdaugh will be tried for two counts of murder and two weapons charges in the June 7, 2021, shooting deaths of his wife, 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh, and their youngest son, 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2023 at 5:23 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
The remains were apparently sent from the municipality of Apatzingán, Michoacán, and addressed to South Carolina.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 12:12 PM CDT
|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: Jul. 19, 2022 at 10:07 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Debra Worley
The child was taken to the hospital but died from injuries suffered in the fall.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 12:07 PM CDT
|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: Jun. 7, 2022 at 3:56 PM CDT
|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 12:10 PM CDT
|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: Apr. 26, 2022 at 12:25 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
The sound of gunfire interrupted a youth baseball game in South Carolina Monday night.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 at 2:23 PM CST
|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.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 at 12:54 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips, Gray News staff and Summer Huechtker
Charleston County dispatchers received multiple calls at about 2:09 a.m. about a disturbance that ended in a shooting inside Players Place Billiards and Sports Bar.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2021 at 4:41 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Actress Betty Lynn, who portrayed the girlfriend of Don Knotts’ Deputy Barney Fife in “The Andy Griffith Show” died Saturday.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2021 at 4:03 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The collapse of a pedestrian bridge Wednesday onto I-295 in Washington, D.C. sent five people to the hospital.
Updated: May. 29, 2021 at 9:20 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A World War II soldier who traveled from Boston to South Carolina paid his respects to the fellow soldier who saved his life.
Updated: May. 23, 2021 at 11:01 PM CDT
|By Lillian Donahue, Riley Bean and Patrick Phillips
North Charleston’s police chief called for the community to come forward with information on a shooting that left a teenager dead and 14 others wounded at an unauthorized concert.
Updated: May. 20, 2021 at 5:41 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Goose Creek firefighters say they rescued a kitten that became trapped inside the wall of a home near electrical service.
Updated: Apr. 23, 2021 at 5:07 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Oregon health authorities say federal officials are investigating the death of a woman in her 50s who developed a blood clot and low platelets within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2021 at 1:50 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The owner of a Ravenel butcher and taxidermy shop says his team found five dog tags, a shell casing, turtle shells and even a spark plug inside the stomach of a 12-foot alligator killed by a Lowcountry hunter.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2021 at 2:34 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
Berkeley County school traffic deputies and staffers worked together to expel a coyote that wandered into an elementary school building Wednesday.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2020 at 11:14 AM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
An official with the Florida State Republican Party says he would love to see an airport close to President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago named for the commander-in-chief.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2020 at 6:07 PM CDT
|By Ray Rivera and Patrick Phillips
After more than 17 hours, workers have brought down the statue of former United States Vice President and South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun in downtown Charleston.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2020 at 3:26 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Nick Reagan
Wednesday morning’s graduation ceremony at Ashley Ridge High School will surely be one the school and the Class of 2020 won’t ever forget.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2020 at 9:44 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday a 16-year-old girl who disappeared one week ago is back at home.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2020 at 10:35 AM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
Charleston Police are searching for a missing woman believed to be in danger.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2020 at 8:10 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
Volunteers who searched for a yellow Lab mix missing for two weeks from a truck stolen in North Charleston shared hugs with her owner near the area where she was found dead early Sunday morning.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2019 at 9:29 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
For two Lowcountry families, Thanksgiving Day brought an additional reason to give thanks.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2019 at 3:14 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
Police are asking for the public’s help to locate a missing 15-year-old girl who disappeared Wednesday.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2019 at 10:53 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A group of whales stranded themselves Saturday morning on Edisto Beach, attracting a large law enforcement presence and curious onlookers.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2019 at 11:13 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Officials with South Carolina State University confirmed two people were wounded early Friday morning in a shooting on campus.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2019 at 12:42 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Department of Social Services announced Thursday counties and zip codes eligible to receive automatic replacement of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits because of losses from Hurricane Dorian.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2019 at 11:55 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The sound of explosions when a live wire fell into flood water on a downtown Charleston street could be heard blocks away Thursday afternoon.
Updated: Jul. 4, 2019 at 10:39 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Kaitlin Stansell
The Georgetown County Coroner released the identity of the man killed in a lightning strike Thursday afternoon.
Updated: Jun. 3, 2019 at 9:02 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
We may be in for some good news at the gas pump over the summer, analysts with GasBuddy say.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2019 at 10:08 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Kaitlin Stansell
Two Lowcountry recreational fishermen ended their fishing trip late Sunday afternoon with an unexpected catch.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2019 at 12:12 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
No criminal charges will be filed in the March death of a 10-year-old Colleton County girl who died after a fight in her classroom, the solicitor says.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2019 at 2:46 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The veteran North Charleston firefighter whose rescue of a three-month old puppy went viral on social media last weekend gave the puppy a forever home Saturday.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2019 at 7:12 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Nick Krueger
On the same day pathologists at MUSC performed an autopsy on a 10-year-old girl who died after a fight at her school, the child’s father announced plans to speak to the media.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2019 at 6:58 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
As a community waits for word about the cause of death for a 10-year-old girl who died two days after a fight in her Colleton County school, attorneys for her family say the child’s loved ones are demanding transparency.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2019 at 7:17 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Ray Rivera
Flowers, balloons, and stuffed animals were left in front of a Colleton County elementary school where investigators say a fight in a classroom led to the death of a 10-year-old girl two days later.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2019 at 11:47 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A fifth-grade Walterboro student was being treated in Charleston for injuries she received during a fight at her school.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2019 at 2:36 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
A Michigan child called his dad from the family's doorbell to ask an important question: "How do you turn on the kids channel?"
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