Richard Winton

A car registered to a missing Santa Clarita woman was found in a ravine in Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said. A body was found nearby, said sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore, but has not been identified. The...

A homeless woman known to many as Flo remained in critical condition Friday after being doused with a flammable liquid and set ablaze on a bus bench on Van Nuys Boulevard. Times Staff Writers Richard Winton and Ashley Powers will......

Times crime reporters Richard Winton and Andrew Blankstein will join city editor Shelby Grad at 12:30 p.m. in a Google+ hangout to discuss a Florida man sentenced to 10 years in prison for hacking celebrity email accounts, including those of Mila Kunis,...

Los Angeles Times crime reporters Richard Winton and Andrew Blankstein will join City Editor Shelby Grad in a Google+ hangout at 2 p.m. to discuss rapper Notorious B.I.G.'s autopsy, which was released last week 15 years after his slaying. The......

"Modern Family" teen star Ariel Winter, who accused her mother of abusing her, will continue to live with her adult sister while her father temporarily handles her personal finances, according to an agreement hammered out Wednesday.  L.A. County...

A Los Angeles police commissioner said he wants to examine recent videotaped altercations involving LAPD officers, including one in which a woman died. Police Commission member Richard E. Drooyan said “each incident is disturbing and of concern to...

Five members of a Downey family were shot -- three fatally -- in a bizarre attack that started at the business they owned and ended at their home a few blocks away. Authorities said that they don’t know the motive......

After several days of investigation, detectives don't believe documentable crimes occurred in the public battle between "Modern Family" actress Ariel Winter and her mother, a law enforcement source said. L.A. County sheriff's officials have spent the...

L.A. County sheriff's detectives plans to present their findings to prosecutors in two separate investigations involving  "Modern Family" actress Ariel Winter, law enforcement sources said. The sources said they doubted either investigation -- one...

Authorities are investigating an allegation by the mother of "Modern Family" star Ariel Winter that her daughter's 18-year-old boyfriend had unlawful sex with the 14-year-old actress, according to sources familiar with the investigation. The L.A....

After he was badly injured in May by two LAPD officers, top Deutsche Bank executive Brian C. Mulligan alleged that police manufactured a report that painted him as a snarling, thrashing man who told the officers that he'd recently ingested drugs known...

A Newport Coast businessman has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife, police said Friday. Peter Gregory Chadwick, 48, a business executive, was arrested Thursday in San Diego, near the Mexican border and booked in connection with death of his...