Longtime KTLA reporter Stan Chambers dies at age 91

LOS ANGELES -- Longtime news reporter Stan Chambers, who worked for KTLA for more than six decades, died Friday at the age of 91.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Chambers family," KTLA President and General Manager Don Corsini said on the station's website. "Stan was a brilliant journalist and one of the best in the business."

According to KTLA, Chambers also broke the Rodney King beating story when an amateur photographer who filmed the beating handed over his tape to him.

Chambers retired on his 87th birthday in 2010.

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City News Service contributed to this report.