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 X, 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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The Santa Monica Police Department said there is no indication of foul play at this time and that they are also investigating Gerber’s apparent overdose.
Hayden Panettiere died from fentanyl and a mix of other drugs, according to a coroner’s report released Tuesday.
Presley Gerber, the supermodel’s son with businessman Rande Gerber, died Sunday at a rehab facility at age 27.
The driver of an SUV that slammed into a Metro bus, killing two passengers, has battled drug addiction for years and been in and out of police custody as she’s struggled to stay sober, her friend told The Times in an interview.
The woman accused of being behind the wheel of an SUV in a deadly crash involving a Metro bus was charged with two counts of murder Thursday, as families and friends mourn the victims of the crash and a subsequent helicopter crash that killed three others.
An LAPD search warrant affidavit revealed that Beverly Hills police are investigating whether OnlyFans model Adva Lavie drugged her onetime fiancé Steve Cloobeck with ketamine.
The crash that killed three people on Tuesday night, including two NBC4 journalists, involved a single-engine AS350 B2 helicopter. Questions surround why it suddenly dropped from the sky.
At a news conference Wednesday, federal transportation officials said the most critical information available so far has been video captured from the helicopter during its final, live broadcast moments before it crashed.
A helicopter crashed into flames Tuesday night in Chatsworth, not far from a serious accident involving a Metro bus that left three people dead.
Aunque no participó en los asesinatos más infames de Manson —entre ellos los de Sharon Tate y otras cuatro personas—, Davis fue condenado por otros dos homicidios. Se determinó que reunía los requisitos para la libertad condicional en ocho ocasiones, pero su liberación fue bloqueada repetidamente por los gobernadores de California.