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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About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.
June 26, 2024
An Irvine woman accused of killing her 92-year-old mother was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder.
June 21, 2024
Growing up in Los Angeles, it was hard to escape the terrible footage on the nightly news of the plunging helicopter that killed Vic Morrow and two children.
June 16, 2024
The length of the trial ensured that the terrible footage was constantly on the nightly news.
June 12, 2024
Officials said a wildfire burning in San Joaquin County is 50% contained.
June 2, 2024
No signs of gang involvement were found Saturday in the fatal shooting of two men as they sat in a car in a residential area of the South L.A. neighborhood, the LAPD said.
June 1, 2024
Details of 24-year-old Mirelle Mateus’ last night alive — and of the botched police response to her calls for help — emerged during Aaron Romo’s trial this month.
May 29, 2024
Recovering at USC Medical Center, Paul Morantz was wheeled out in his hospital bed to face the press. He had no doubt the snake had come from Synanon, the drug rehab group founded 20 years earlier by a magnetic pitchman named Charles Dederich.
May 29, 2024
William Leasure, killer cop, still denies the big crimes, the ones that put him in prison: orchestrating the contract murders of a beauty shop employee and a jazz bassist.
May 15, 2024
Rebecca Schaeffer’s murder by an obsessed fan led to anti-stalking laws. Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor, reflects on the case.
May 8, 2024