The Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal have each won two Pulitzer Prizes in journalism.

Here's an excerpt from an AP story on Yahoo! News:

The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal captured two Pulitzer Prizes apiece Monday, with the Times winning the public service award for exposing deadly medical problems at an inner-city hospital and the Journal cited for its incisive stories about the plight of cancer survivors.

Two other entries with medical themes were honored as well. Deanne Fitzmaurice of the San Francisco Chronicle won in feature photography for a photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion. And Boston Globe reporter Gareth Cook's story detailing the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem-cell research won for explanatory journalism.

The Associated Press won in breaking news photography for a series of pictures of bloody combat in Iraq. The award was the AP's 48th Pulitzer.

As a crowd gathered around the photo desk at AP headquarters, President and CEO Tom Curley stood atop a chair beside Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll to congratulate the staff.

"These folks showed incredible courage this year," Curley said. "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."

Unlike last year, when the Los Angeles Times won five Pulitzers, this year's awards were widely distributed. The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., won in breaking news for its coverage of New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey's resignation after he admitted having an affair with a male lover. Aides later identified that man as the state's director of homeland security.

Here's the complete list of journalism winners scraped off the Pulitzer.org website:

PUBLIC SERVICE	Los Angeles Times For its courageous, exhaustively researched series exposing deadly medical problems and racial injustice at a major public hospital.
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING	Staff of Star-Ledger, Newark, N..J. For its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey’s governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING	Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week, Portland, Ore. For his investigation exposing a former governor’s long concealed sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl.
EXPLANATORY REPORTING	Gareth Cook of Boston Globe For explaining, with clarity and humanity, the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research.
BEAT REPORTING	Amy Dockser Marcus of Wall Street Journal For her masterful stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors.
NATIONAL REPORTING	Walt Bogdanich of New York Times For his heavily documented stories about the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING	Kim Murphy of Los Angeles Times For her eloquent, wide ranging coverage of Russia’s struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING	Dele Olojede of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. For his fresh, haunting look at Rwanda a decade after rape and genocidal slaughter had ravaged the Tutsi tribe.
FEATURE WRITING	Julia Keller of Chicago Tribune For her gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second tornado that ripped through Utica, Ill.
COMMENTARY	Connie Schultz of Plain Dealer, Cleveland For her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged.
CRITICISM	Joe Morgenstern of Wall Street Journal For his reviews that elucidated the strengths and weaknesses of film with rare insight, authority and wit.
EDITORIAL WRITING	Tom Philp of Sacramento Bee For his deeply researched editorials on reclaiming California’s flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley that stirred action.
EDITORIAL CARTOONING	Nick Anderson of Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky. For his unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages.
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY	Associated Press Staff For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY	Deanne Fitzmaurice of San Francisco Chronicle For her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital’s effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion.