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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In the wake of the Palisades fire, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power employees have reported a pair of incidents that raised alarm inside the utility.
As firefighters contended with another day of dry, windy conditions, residents continued to confront their losses and the pain of not being able to return home.
Juan Manuel Sierra, 33, a.k.a. Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, was arrested last Thursday after ‘attempting to start a fire’ with a blowtorch in a West Hills neighborhood, authorities said.
The most serious red flag fire weather warning has been issued by the NWS for swaths of L.A. and Ventura counties starting before dawn Tuesday.
The origin point of the Palisades fire could be around a beloved hiking trail with ocean views — and where another fire was sparked days earlier. Here is what we know.
Los Angeles officials said they arrested 29 more people overnight in the fire zones, including two burglary suspects who were allegedly dressed as firefighters.
Kristin Crowley, in multiple interviews, drew a connection between budget cuts to her department and the city’s struggle to combat the wildfires.
Juan Sierra, 33, who was arrested Thursday on a suspected probation violation, is identified as a ‘person of interest’ in the Kenneth fire.
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Los Angeles faces another tense night as the Palisades fire moved northeast, prompting new mandatory evacuations.