Joe Mozingo

Staff Writer

Joe Mozingo is a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He won a Robert F. Kennedy Award for covering the earthquake in Haiti and the ASNE Punch Sulzberger Award for Online Storytelling for his in-depth look at a federal investigation into relic poaching in rural Utah that led to three suicides. Mozingo helped lead The Times’ coverage of the Isla Vista killings in 2014 and a Miami Herald investigation into the space shuttle Columbia crash in 2003; both were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His book, “The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, a Search for Family” was a 2012 “Discover Great New Writers” pick by Barnes and Noble.

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California

The stranger-than-fiction twists that led to Robert Durst’s Los Angeles murder trial

California

The stranger-than-fiction twists that led to Robert Durst’s Los Angeles murder trial

With jury selection set to begin in Los Angeles on Wednesday, the Robert Durst murder trial is expected to last up to five months, pitting a lineup of elite Los Angeles County prosecutors against the high-end Houston legal team that helped Durst beat a murder charge in Texas in 2003.
California

Cannabis farm was a model for California’s legal industry. Then came a sheriff’s raid

California

Cannabis farm was a model for California’s legal industry. Then came a sheriff’s raid

In Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County officials gave reporters a tour of a licensed cannabis farm to show how its regulations were working. Nine months later, the sheriff department raided it and reported finding evidence the growers was selling on the black market.
California

The last flight of Kobe Bryant

California

The last flight of Kobe Bryant

Tracing Kobe Bryant’s fateful last flight Sunday morning that ended with a horrific crash.
California

Kobe Bryant’s death in helicopter crash stuns the world, leaves L.A. grieving

California

Kobe Bryant’s death in helicopter crash stuns the world, leaves L.A. grieving

Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, 41, died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others.
Politics

Bernie Sanders shaped this small city, and it gave him a moonshot to the national stage

Politics

Bernie Sanders shaped this small city, and it gave him a moonshot to the national stage

Burlington shaped Sanders as Sanders shaped Burlington, so much so that it’s hard to consider one without the other.
California

She was a test case for resettling detainees of Japanese descent — and unaware of the risk

California

She was a test case for resettling detainees of Japanese descent — and unaware of the risk

In 1944, Esther Takei Nishio, who died last month, was the first Japanese American internee to return to the West Coast and attend school. Her warm welcome was short-lived.
California

Saugus shooting suspect turned 16, got a gun and opened fire on classmates, authorities say

California

Saugus shooting suspect turned 16, got a gun and opened fire on classmates, authorities say

Authorities said a gunman wearing black shot at least five people. Two were killed.
California

Why were Carpinteria school officials pictured smiling in a marijuana field? Money

California

Why were Carpinteria school officials pictured smiling in a marijuana field? Money

Carpinteria residents angry over the presence — and smell — of massive marijuana grows find they have a powerful foe as growers gain political clout.
California

Getty fire spreads in elite enclaves, a celebrity-studded spectacle of L.A.’s inherent dangers

California

Getty fire spreads in elite enclaves, a celebrity-studded spectacle of L.A.’s inherent dangers

The Getty fire was not the biggest or most destructive. But fires that break out in the Sepulveda Pass and roar up to the rich and famous become more than natural phenomenons.

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Arson investigation underway

Fire prompts anxiety among frightened students
California

Northern California fire and power crisis could last for days as powerful winds persist

California

Northern California fire and power crisis could last for days as powerful winds persist

Thousands of utility customers expected to remain without power until at least Wednesday

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PG&E power outage map and address lookup

PG&E customers could remain without power until Wednesday