Christopher Goffard is an author and a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. He shared in the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s Bell coverage and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing, in 2007 and 2014. His novel “Snitch Jacket” was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. His book “You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya,” based on his Times series, was published in 2011.
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The Norte fire has burned more than 570 acres and damaged homes in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano as firefighters battle Southern California blazes.
Sacramento-trained Ben Ali won the Derby in 1886 and was commemorated with a statue in 2008. The bronze was reported stolen on Wednesday.
Ryo Uchimiya was fatally injured Saturday when his parked car was struck by a Range Rover on Pacific Coast Highway outside the restaurant where he worked, authorities say.
The Bouquet fire, which started around 3 p.m. Saturday in Angeles National Forest, has surpassed 1,000 acres.
In the 1940s, Flynn went to trial on statutory rape charges involving two girls, 16 and 17.
Under constant threat of arrest from L.A. vice cops, Lenny Bruce waged a dangerous campaign to liberate stand-up comedy from Borscht Belt one-liners.
There was nothing to fear, Mulholland declared as he inspected the water leaking from the dam that morning. The muddiness? That was from the water spilling over a dirt road. Then the czar returned to L.A.
It took 11 months for the LAPD to charge Blake with his wife’s murder. His motive, authorities said, was to win custody of his daughter from a woman whose lifestyle he found abhorrent.
Forecasters are expecting 90-degree temperatures in downtown Los Angeles and the L.A. metro area — a marked increase from Saturday’s 75-degree high.
The man stabbed one of the deputies, who was taken to the hospital with noncritical injuries, according to the Sheriff’s Department.