by: Los Angeles Times staff and wire reports

Riverside, Calif.--Howard H "Tim" Hays, 94, a former editor and publisher of the Press-Enterprise who led the  newspaper when it won a Pulitzer Prize for an expose in the 1960s and won two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases in 1st Amendment fights for court access in the '80s, died Friday at a hospital in St. Louis after a period of declining health because of Alzheimer's disease.