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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A federal indictment alleges that Combs and his associates lured female victims, often under the pretense of a romantic relationship.
The move streamlines the potential path to freedom for the brothers who have served more than 35 years in prison since being sentenced for killing their parents with shotguns in 1989.
Erik and Lyle Menendez received a chance at freedom after more than 35 years in prison Tuesday, with a judge resentencing the brothers after relatives testified it was time for them to come home.
Tory Lanez was hospitalized Monday morning after another allegedly stabbed him. He is currently carrying out a decade long sentence at the California Correctional Institution.
A judge ruled Friday that a resentencing hearing for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez can go forward next week, potentially clearing a path to parole decades after they killed their parents.
L.A. police chief says the suspect had lived a life of uncertainty, staying at his mother’s home or on the street, and served two years in prison for burglary.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said officers responding two separate 911 calls of violent assaults did not immediately enter the locations where slain victims were later found.
‘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.