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At the Sun Sentinel, reporters explored speeding by off-duty officers. The reporting led to suspensions, firings and police policy changes. "It feels great to win for that story because it really changed things here for the better," Editor Howard Saltz said. At the Star Tribune, Brad Schrade, Jeremy Olson and Glenn Howatt captured the Pulitzer for local reporting for examining a sharp rise in in infant deaths at day-care centers, reporting that spurred stronger regulation. Minnesota authorities reported last week that day care deaths have dropped significantly. It was "really satisfying we had an impact," Schrade said. Steve Sack, who has been at the paper for 35 years, won for editorial cartooning. In opinion writing categories, Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal received the commentary award for columns on American foreign policy and domestic politics. The Washington Post's chief art critic, Philip Kennicott, was honored for writing on the sociology of images. In one case, he focused on a picture of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hugging, calling it a portrait of a modern marriage. The editorial writing award went to Tim Nickens and Daniel Ruth of the Tampa Bay Times for a series of editorials that helped reverse a decision to end fluoridation of the water supply in Pinellas County, home to 700,000 people. Formerly the St. Petersburg Times, the newspaper is owned by the nonprofit Poynter Institute. Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son," about a man's travails in North Korea, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Other arts winners included Ayad Akhtar winning the drama prize for "Disgraced," a play about a successful Pakistani-American lawyer whose dinner party spins out of control amid a heated discussion of identity and religion. The history prize went to Frederik Logevall for "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam," about Vietnam under the French. Tom Reiss won the biography prize for "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo." He learned he won the Pulitzer while visiting the dentist, who waived the usual fee. Sharon Olds' chronicling of her divorces in her 12th poetry collection, "Stag's Leap," won her the Poetry prize. "I'm in shock," she said Monday when reached by phone, adding that she was trembling and a "little weepy. "And my eyes are very open and sticky." The general nonfiction Pulitzer went to Gilbert King for "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America." The book tells the story of a 1949 case, in which four black men were falsely accused of rape, and their attorney was Thurgood Marshall. Caroline Shaw's composition "Partita for 8 Voices" took the music prize. The 30-year-old graduate student at Princeton University is also a violinist and a vocalist.
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