Rebecca Kimitch won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting as part of a three-person team at The Daily Breeze of Torrance, California, for their investigation of a local school superintendent's excessive salary and perks. Her fifteen years’ experience as a journalist include more than two years at The Tico Times, where she worked from 2004 to 2006.
Videos showing hundreds of turtle eggs scattered across the sand at Ostional National Wildlife Refuge raised concern this week, after strong Pacific swells eroded...