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. 13, 2023 at 11:49 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline rose 13.1 cents over the past week, reaching a new average not seen since Jan. 30.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 11:52 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys representing convicted killer Alex Murdaugh have filed the first step to appeal his conviction for the murders of his wife and son, court documents state.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 5:16 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, who represented convicted killer Alex Murdaugh in his murder trial, took the floor of the state Senate Tuesday afternoon.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 3:44 PM EST
|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 12:09 PM EST
|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 9:41 PM EST
|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 5:46 PM EST
|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: Feb. 28, 2023 at 10:23 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Mike Pence is set to make several stops in the Palmetto State later this week, including one here in the Lowcountry.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Molly McBride
The sixth week of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial began Monday morning at the Colleton County Courthouse with word that the jury will be able to see the rural property where Murdaugh’s wife and son were shot to death.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 8:00 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in South Carolina dipped below the $3-mark over the last week, falling 4.5 cents over last week’s average.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 5:42 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Cameron Bopp and Jeffrey Collins
Alex Murdaugh told the judge overseeing his murder trial he does plan to testify in his own defense.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 at 12:28 PM EST
|By James Pollard and Patrick Phillips
Additional fees may be coming for incoming South Carolina residents who want to legally drive on their new home state’s roads.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 5:56 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Cameron Bopp
After a long weekend, the trial of Alex Murdaugh resumes Tuesday morning as his defense team works to prove he is not guilty of the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 5:36 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The average price per gallon for gasoline in the Palmetto State dropped a few cents last week and stands just above the $3 mark.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 3:00 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Jeffrey Collins
The murder trial of disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will not resume on Monday because of Presidents Day.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 10:51 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina’s 2022 export sales total for completed passenger motor vehicles increased six percent over the previous year, making it the national leader once again in both categories.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 6:02 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Jeffrey Collins
Alex Murdaugh’s defense team worked to establish doubt over testimony from the doctor who performed autopsies on Maggie and Paul Murdaugh and the man who took care of the dog kennels.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 9:01 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute and Jeffrey Collins
The fourth week of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial began with word from the judge that two jurors tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 10:04 AM EST
|By Meg Kinnard, Steve Peoples and Patrick Phillips
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will visit the Holy City Wednesday for what is expected to be her official announcement that she will run for president in 2024.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 6:21 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Chick-fil-A is testing the company’s first-ever plant-based sandwich starting Monday in Charleston and two other areas nationwide.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 5:52 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute and Blair Sabol
One of Alex Murdaugh’s closest friends took the stand Thursday morning in the Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 5:40 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
The judge presiding over the Alex Murdaugh murder trial told the courtroom Tuesday that a juror had to go to the emergency room but that it would not affect the trial.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 5:17 PM EST
|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: 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. 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. 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: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 24, 2023 at 5:31 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute and Patrick Phillips
A busy second day in the Alex Murdaugh trial saw the judge rule on three motions and qualify a fourth pool of jurors to return for actual jury selection.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 10:24 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Oil prices pulled gas prices in the Palmetto State and across the nation over the past week to an average price of $3.13, a GasBuddy analysis found.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 7:51 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
The trial of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will begin in Walterboro this week with jury selection set to begin Monday morning.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 2:10 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Education Lottery officials said a Lowcountry player’s winnings jumped from $50,000 to a half-million because of one extra dollar.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 3:18 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Friends and family will gather Friday for the funeral of Arthur Ravenel Jr., a well-known political figure in South Carolina.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 8:22 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office says a missing teen may have switched vehicles after they found the vehicle he was believed to be driving was recovered in Florence County.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 10:41 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster took the oath of office on the steps of the Statehouse in Columbia Wednesday morning to start his second full term as the state’s chief executive.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 6:42 PM EST
|By Michal Higdon and Patrick Phillips
Topgolf has confirmed it will open its 87th global location in North Charleston in less than two weeks.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 11:24 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is one step closer to making history in the Palmetto State.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 11:25 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A federal court has thrown out three newly-drawn South Carolina congressional districts after ruling they were drawn to intentionally disadvantage Black voters.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2023 at 11:18 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster released his Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Executive Budget listing his economic priorities for the new year Friday morning.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 6:43 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Cameron Bopp
The mother of murder victim Brittanee Drexel filed a civil lawsuit against the Georgetown County man convicted of her death.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 1:20 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Ann McGill
Charleston’s mayor has named Wednesday in honor of a Charleston resident and South Carolina native who is celebrating her 102nd birthday.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2023 at 12:11 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A South Carolina state senator released a statement after Lexington Police cited him for public intoxication early on New Year’s Morning.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2023 at 6:23 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
The remains were apparently sent from the municipality of Apatzingán, Michoacán, and addressed to South Carolina.
Updated: Dec. 31, 2022 at 12:02 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office says the fourth person arrested in a deadly November shooting is a 15-year-old boy.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 12:18 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster will take the oath of office next month for the start of the term which will make him the longest-serving governor in state history.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 8:23 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
A survey of gas stations across the Palmetto State revealed a 4.7-cent drop in prices during the week leading up to Christmas, marking the seventh straight week that prices fell.
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