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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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.
The killing of a 13-year-old boy and criminal charges against his trusted soccer coach have profoundly shaken this Latin American immigrant community in Los Angeles.
The owners of the burgled jewelry store said the alarms never went off, and the store’s Ring camera mysteriously shut off before 10 p.m. Sunday.
A resentencing hearing that could have given the brothers a shot at parole was delayed after a fight over a parole document ordered by Gov. Gavin Newsom paralyzed proceedings.
In a security video of the weekend break-in, a massive drill can be heard carving through the main castlelike wall, making a hole big enough for a person to slip through to enter Love Jewels, Reina de Oro at Broadway and 5th Street.
Un juez del condado de Los Ángeles ha denegado la petición del fiscal Nathan Hochman de revocar la petición de volver a condenar a los hermanos Menéndez, preparando el terreno para una vista que podría ofrecer a los hermanos un camino hacia la libertad.
An L.A. County judge has denied Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman’s bid to revoke a petition to resentence the Menendez brothers, setting the stage for a hearing that could offer the brothers a path to freedom.
The wife of celebrity hairstylist Fabio Sementelli has been convicted of arranging his 2017 murder. Prosecutors said Monica Sementelli directed her lover to kill him.
Jillian Lauren, an author and the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after police say she fired her gun at officers. She was wounded in the shooting.