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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Guy Edward Bartkus is the sole suspect in the bomb attack at a Palm Springs fertility clinic last Saturday. In the years leading up to the incident, his life was touched by family acrimony and a keen interest in explosives.
As authorities sift through debris at a Palm Springs fertility clinic, investigators are looking at how bombing suspect Guy Edward Bartkus learned to build a bomb and where he acquired the parts.
Authorities are investigating what appear to be radical views that Guy Edward Bartkus expressed online in the months before Saturday’s attack.
The suspect in the bombing of a Palm Springs fertility clinic was tentatively identified by the FBI as Guy Edward Bartkus, 25.
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.