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: 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. 17, 2021 at 7:19 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Six years ago Thursday night, gunfire erupted at the end of a Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME Church 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: 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. 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: Oct. 13, 2019 at 8:48 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
If you love astronomy, you’ll want to make sure to enjoy this weekend’s full Hunter’s Moon, which will be visible starting on Sunday.
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. 9, 2019 at 1:57 PM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A South Carolina funeral home is asking people to come to the funeral of a 75-year-old Navy veteran who has no family to claim him.
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: Mar. 31, 2019 at 8:38 AM CDT
|By Patrick Phillips
North Charleston firefighters are used to rescuing two-legged victims from emergency scenes, but on Saturday, they came to a rescue of a four-legged victim in need.
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: 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?"
Updated: Nov. 8, 2018 at 12:26 PM CST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Centers for Disease Control says a Salmonella outbreak has now made 164 people sick across 35 states.