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.

National

A mother and two daughters died after a deputy ran a stop sign and collided with their vehicle,...

Sheriff: Deputy ran stop sign in deadly crash that killed mother, daughters

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.

National

The North Charleston Police Department and Charleston County EMS responded to a strip mall...

5 children hospitalized after found in vehicle unresponsive in S.C.

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.

National

The vigil will honor Stephanie Dantzler and her daughters, Shanice Dantzler-Williams and...

Vigil to honor Colleton County mother, daughters killed in deputy-involved crash

Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 6:39 AM CDT

By Patrick Phillips

The Colleton County community will gather Friday night to remember three women killed on Mother’s Day in a crash involving a deputy.

National

Video shows children ducking for cover as gunfire erupted during a youth baseball game in North...

Gunfire interrupts youth baseball game in South Carolina

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.

National

A scaffolding collapsed Monday during high winds outside a Sotille Street apartment building in...

Scaffolding collapses in strong winds at S.C. apartment building

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.

National

Charleston County Dispatchers said police responded at approximately 2:09 a.m. to the Player's...

1 killed, 4 injured in shooting at S.C. sports bar

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.

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Local

Second suspect in Temple H-E-B meat theft surrendered to police in Killeen on May 19

Updated: 17 minutes ago

By KWTX Staff

The second suspect in the theft of more than $2,000 in meat products from a Temple H-E-B surrendered to authorities.

Politics

Texas will increase checkpoints for trucks crossing from Mexico after migrant smuggling deaths

Updated: 2 hours ago

By PATRICK SVITEK

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that Texas will add new checkpoints for trucks entering the state from Mexico after after over 50 migrants died in connection with an abandoned tractor-trailer found in San Antonio.

Politics

Gov. Greg Abbott unloads nearly $20 million in ad buys in race against Beto O’Rourke

Updated: 2 hours ago

By PATRICK SVITEK

With more than four months left until election day, Gov. Greg Abbott is pressing one of his biggest advantages in his reelection campaign: money.

Politics

Takeaways from first primaries since Roe v. Wade overturned

Updated: 2 hours ago

By STEVE PEOPLES

A rare Republican who supports abortion rights found success in Colorado in the first primary elections held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, while New York’s first female governor positioned herself to become a major voice in the post-Roe landscape.

Local

Outgoing district attorney defends performance, work to mitigate effects of ‘500-year flood’

Updated: 2 hours ago

By Tommy Witherspoon

District Attorney Barry Johnson, who took office in January 2019, refers to the pandemic-related shutdown as his office’s “500-year flood.”

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Politics

The story behind AP report that caused Trump to throw lunch

Updated: 2 hours ago

By DAVID BAUDER

The news story that reportedly caused former President Donald Trump to throw his lunch against a White House wall came from an exclusive interview that former Attorney General William Barr had arranged with The Associated Press.

Politics

U.S. Judge clears Trump of contempt in New York attorney general’s fraud investigation

Updated: 2 hours ago

By GRAHAM KATES

A New York judge ruled Wednesday that Donald Trump is no longer in contempt for failing to turn over documents demanded in a subpoena by the state’s attorney general.

National

FBI opens sweeping probe of clergy sex abuse in New Orleans

Updated: 3 hours ago

By JIM MUSTIAN

The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them, officials and others familiar with the inquiry told The Associated Press.

Local

Affidavit: Clothes, time with friends and money used in exchange by suspect in sexual assault

Updated: 3 hours ago

By Angela Bonilla

Jose Hernandez-Silva, 44, has been charged with sexual assault after he abused a victim close to him in 2012.

Health

A viral reprise: When COVID-19 strikes again and again

Updated: 3 hours ago

By LAURA UNGAR

“I’m bummed to know that I might forever just get infected,” said the 31-year-old singer, who is vaccinated and boosted. “I don’t want to be getting sick every month or every two months.”

Local

Affidavit: Killeen man shared explicit photos of wife on social media during divorce

Updated: 3 hours ago

By Angela Bonilla

Vincent B. Stevenson Jr., 24, has been indicted in allegedly publishing and threatening to publish intimate visual material of his then wife in 2021.