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: 1 hour ago
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
The judge presiding over the Alex Murdaugh murder trial will likely decide this week whether jurors will hear about the financial crime charges Murdaugh faces.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By Patrick Phillips and Ann McGill
The Holy City is honoring a retired teacher who celebrates a major milestone Sunday.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
A judge will likely rule this week whether jurors will hear testimony on nearly 100 other charges disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh faces.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2023 at 4:38 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Dylan Leatherwood and The Associated Press
The United States on Saturday downed a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America and became the latest flashpoint in tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2023 at 8:39 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will make his ninth visit to the Charleston area since leaving office this Monday.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 10:19 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
A judge is expected to hear additional testimony from banking officials Friday morning as he decides whether the jury in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial will hear it.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 12:51 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Charleston Police have confirmed the pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle early Friday morning near the Crosstown has died after being taken to an area hospital.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 12:05 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Police are searching for a teenager who has been reported missing from her home in North Charleston.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 10:18 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Charleston Police have confirmed they increased their presence at one of its middle schools after the discovery of a message in a boys’ restroom.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 9:42 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol, Cameron Bopp and Jeffrey Collins
The judge presiding over the Alex Murdaugh murder trial is allowing testimony on Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes, but so far, not with the jury present.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 5:54 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
Some of the testimony in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial Thursday was heard without the jury being present.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 1:20 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
An Andrews man has pleaded guilty to his involvement in the 2019 robbery of a mail carrier and his role in a marijuana conspiracy.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 1:17 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A judge sentenced a North Charleston man to federal prison after the man pleaded guilty to the production of child pornography.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 1:16 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash in Orangeburg County on Wednesday.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 1:13 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Fire investigators are working to determine what led to a reported early-morning structure fire off Dorchester Road in the North Charleston area.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 10:01 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Someone in the city of Walterboro purchased a Palmetto Cash 5 lottery ticket that has earned them more than a quarter-of-a-million dollar jackpot.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 7:07 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and The Associated Press
A pair of videos recorded by Paul Murdaugh the night he and his mother were killed was a focus of testimony as his father, Alex Murdaugh, stands trial for their deaths.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 6:11 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
State prosecutors claim a video taken on the night Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were killed at their Colleton County home puts Alex Murdaugh at the scene despite his telling investigators he wasn’t there.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 1:37 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley plans to announce a run for the White House during a visit to Charleston in two weeks, according to a report from CBS News.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 11:30 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Georgetown County deputies say a 16-year-old boy who was reported missing Tuesday has been found.
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. 31, 2023 at 2:02 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and The Associated Press
South Carolina’s attorney general on Monday asked the state’s high court to reconsider its ruling striking down the state’s six-week abortion ban.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 1:46 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A Lowcountry couple won big after buying a $10 ticket, South Carolina Education Lottery officials say.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 7:01 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of a fire early Tuesday in a Hanahan home.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 4:40 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Investigators are working to determine who fired shots into an occupied home late Monday night.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 10:06 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
In a Colleton County courthouse Monday, prosecutors continued to present their case in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 8:27 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Charleston Police say an early-morning crash in West Ashley blocked a lane of Savannah Highway for several hours Sunday.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 8:27 AM EST
|By Dylan Leatherwood, Meg Kinnard & Jill Colvin, Patrick Phillips and Nick Reagan
Former President Donald Trump kicked off his 2024 campaign Saturday, highlighted by an afternoon stop at the South Carolina State House.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 4:13 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A judge sentenced a man Friday after a Berkeley County jury convicted him in a 2017 killing.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2023 at 7:25 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary and Patrick Phillips
The first week of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial wrapped up Friday after a three-day jury selection, fiery opening statements and first responders detailing their response on the night his wife and son were killed.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 10:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
Evidence collection and preservation continued as the main theme during day five of the Alex Murdaugh trial.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 2:21 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Mount Pleasant Police arrested a 22-year-old man after responding to an elementary school Thursday afternoon where an intruder was reported.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 1:38 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Deputies say they are trying to determine who fired shots into homes in Georgetown County Thursday night.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 1:03 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Dylan Leatherwood
The Berkeley County Coroner’s Office released the name of the victim of a deadly Thursday morning crash on Highway 41.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 9:26 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
North Charleston Police say they have reopened roads around two North Charleston schools after investigating a suspicious package.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 6:32 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A Hanahan Middle School Student found a silver lining to losing last year’s Berkeley County School District Spelling Bee by taking the proverbial gold this year.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 5:33 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said a man wanted in connection with a stabbing at a bar in December surrendered to deputies Thursday morning.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 11:19 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Emily Johnson
A free clinic that anticipates helping thousands of patients and serving tens of thousands through its food pantry over the next three years is holding a ribbon cutting in Charleston Thursday.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 9:32 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
Six witnesses took the stand Thursday in the first day of testimony in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:59 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Jeffrey Collins and Blair Sabol
The prosecution called a deputy who responded to the scene of the June 7, 2021, double killing at Alex Murdaugh’s family property as its first witness in the murder trial of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh Thursday morning.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 4:55 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
An Andrews man faces a life sentence after a jury convicted him on five charges connected with the shooting death of a mail carrier in Williamsburg County.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 1:44 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Two children are in custody after deputies say they called in a school shooting threat at a middle school in Hemingway, Williamsburg County deputies say.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 7:20 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Senate passed a resolution recognizing the service of the longest-serving state senator currently in office.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 4:28 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
Gov. Henry McMaster reiterated some calls he’s been making to the General Assembly recently, including raising teacher starting pay, accelerating road and bridge fixes, and shoring up state reserve funds, during Wednesday’s State of the State Address.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 11:47 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A Rollings Middle School of the Arts student took the crown as Dorchester County School District 2′s top speller.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 6:47 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Blair Sabol, Michal Higdon and Steven Ardary
Attorneys on both sides in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial insist the evidence will either clearly show or clearly call into question his role in the deaths of his wife and son.
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. 25, 2023 at 1:08 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Lowcountry viewers will see a familiar face during Wednesday’s edition of “Dr. Phil.”
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 12:20 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Georgetown County Coroner has identified the man shot to death overnight Wednesday morning.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 11:55 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is leading a multistate effort to call on federal lawmakers to allow states to jam illegal cell phones in prisons.
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