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Pulitzer prizes announced

This photograph is one in a portfolio of 20 taken by 11 Associated Press photographers in Iraq last year. A detenu in an outdoor solitary confinement cell talks with a military policeman at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, on June 22. The AP won a Pulitzer prize in breaking news photography for the series of pictures of bloody combat in Iraq. The award was the AP's 48th Pulitzer. — AP

NEW YORK, APRIL 5. The Los Angeles Times has won two Pulitzer Prizes, including the public service award for exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at an inner-city hospital.

The Wall Street Journal also won two, including one for stories about the plight of cancer survivors.

The Associated Press won for breaking news photography for pictures of bloody year-long combat inside Iraqi cities.

``These folks showed incredible courage this year,'' AP President and CEO Tom Curley told staffers gathered around the photo desk at AP headquarters. ``They took some extraordinary pictures, they captured some incredible moments in history and they did it in a way that made all of us proud.'' Two prizes were awarded for international reporting: Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times for her reporting from Russia and Newsday's Dele Olojede for his look at Rwanda a decade after its genocidal civil war.

Nigel Jaquiss, a former Wall Street stockbroker writing for the alternative newspaper Willamette Week of Portland, Oregon, won for investigative reporting for revealing former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt's sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl when he was Mayor in the 1970s.

The Boston Globe's Gareth Cook won for explanatory journalism for detailing the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem-cell research.

— AP

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