The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, has won the Pulitzer Prize in public service for a series on domestic abuse in the state.
The Seattle Times won the award in breaking news for its digital coverage of a mudslide in Washington State that killed 43 people, and the New York Times won 3 Pulitzers for investigative reporting, international reporting and photography.
The awards, American journalism's highest honor, were announced Monday.
The Pulitzers recognize various categories of reporting, photography and opinion writing, as well as editorial cartooning.Â
The prizes also honor drama, music and fiction and non-fiction books.
The 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners:
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  JOURNALISM
  Public Service: The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina
  Breaking News Reporting: The Seattle Times staff
  Investigative Reporting: Eric Lipton of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal staff
  Explanatory Reporting: Zachary R. Mider of Bloomberg News
  Local Reporting: Rob Kuznia, Rebecca Kimitch and Frank Suraci of the Daily Breeze of Torrance, California
  National Reporting: Carol D. Leonnig of The Washington Post
  International Reporting: The New York Times staff
  Feature Writing: Diana Marcum of the Los Angeles Times
  Commentary: Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle
  Criticism: Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times
  Editorial Writing: Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe
  Editorial Cartooning: Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News
  Breaking News Photography: St. Louis Post-Dispatch photography staff
  Feature Photography: Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, The New York Times
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  LETTERS AND DRAMA
  Fiction: "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)Â
  Drama: "Between Riverside and Crazy" by Stephen Adly GuirgisÂ
  History: "Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People" by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)
  Biography: "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe" by David I. Kertzer (Random House)Â
  Poetry: "Digest" by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books)
  General Nonfiction: "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt)
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  MUSIC
  "Anthracite Fields" by Julia Wolfe (G. Schirmer Inc.)  (AP)
