Richard Winton is an investigative crime writer for the Los Angeles Times and part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2011. Known as @lacrimes on Twitter, during almost 30 years at The Times he also has been part of the breaking news staff that won Pulitzers in 1998, 2004 and 2016. He won the ASNE Deadline News award in 2006. A native of England, after getting degrees from the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he began covering politics but chose to focus on crime because it was less dirty.
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‘I’m going to die’: After frantic 911 calls, LAPD initially missed victims killed inside their homes
LAPD, after 911 calls failed to enter homes, only later found that a person had been killed inside.
Los fiscales de Los Ángeles deben ahora agilizar el archivo de los casos de delitos graves relacionados con delitos sexuales o violencia familiar, en medio de una acumulación de casos penales.
L.A. prosecutors must now expedite filing of felony cases involving sex crimes or family violence, amid a backlog of criminal cases.
Investigators finish fire test in Pacific Palisades as search for cause of January’s blaze continues
Nearly four months after the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began investigating the Palisades fire, investigators set a fire to parts of the Temescal Ridge Trail between Skull Rock and Green Peak on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
A sex abuse allegation against a youth soccer coach appears to have languished for months before the coach was charged with killing a 13-year-old boy.
A fire test will begin Tuesday evening and run until Thursday. Investigators hope it will help them determine how the Palisades fire ignited.
What lead to chainsaw suspect’s alleged tree rampage?
Chatsworth High star and USC commit Alijah Arenas was injured in an auto crash Thursday, a source told the Los Angeles Times.
El asesinato de un niño de 13 años y los cargos penales contra su entrenador de fútbol de confianza han conmocionado profundamente a esta comunidad de inmigrantes latinoamericanos de Los Ángeles.
Joseph Seiders, the drummer for the indie rock band the New Pornographers, allegedly videotaped unsuspecting boys in a Palm Desert Chick-fil-A restroom.