Compton News

A teen was killed during a deputy-involved shooting in Compton on Sunday. The incident occurred near Poinsettia Avenue and Alondra Boulevard in the afternoon hours.

Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives are investigating the shooting death of a man early today in Compton, authorities said.

A man killed during an attempted robbery at a Compton barbershop was identified Saturday.

Compton resident Julian Balfour, while checking out flat-screen TVs at the Downtown Long Beach Wal-Mart on Saturday, said he is not against the sales tax increase Los Angeles County voters approved in November to fund public transportation projects.

Jun 20, 2009 10:32 am US/Pacific COMPTON Click to enlarge 1 of 1 Several suspects shot a South L.A. man after he started messing around with his car in front of his home Saturday.

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of man who was shot shortly after he had been spinning his car incircles outside his Compton home, authorities said.

Stunt driving may have provoked a fatal shooting in Compton, a sheriff's deputy said Saturday.

A freeway inferno erupted late Saturday afternoon when LBFD says a tanker truck impacted the side rail of the 91-E transition road to the 710-N, rupturing its tank, spilling flammable ethanol, bursting into flames, killing the truck's driver, sending the flaming substance into drains and producing black smoke visible from LB to L.A. LBReport.com ...

Ash and metal are the only remains of a tanker truck that crashed through a guard rail, landing on a transition road between the 91 Freeway and the 710 Freeway.

A woman's car plowed into the side of a sheriff's patrol car in Compton and the motorist was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving Saturday, a sergeant said.

Juan Ortiz, a 31-year-old Latino, was shot several times at 151st Street and North Maie Avenue in Compton on Saturday, May 30.

The Network for a Healthy California-Los Angeles Region has several food demos scheduled for June.

Authorities alleged this week that a triple murder that shocked Compton earlier this year was carried out by two brothers as part of a robbery scheme to raise bail money for their mother, who was in Los Angeles County jailon a misdemeanor resisting-arrest charge.

An arraignment was postponed Tuesday for a 19-year-old Compton man charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with a deadly gun battle with police.

Police on Monday identified an 18-year-old suspect who died in a gunbattle with officers near the Long Beach Freeway.

Narbonne's Dannie Farber begins to celebrate his 2nd quarter touchdown against Mira Costa in September 2008.

Dannie Farber, an 18-year-old black man, died after he was shot in the shoulder, chestand left thumb on Sunday, May 24, in the 1900 block of West Rosecrans Avenue in Compton, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office.

A man is in critical condition after being shot by Long Beach police officers in Belmont Shore early Thursday morning.

A Long Beach police detective and three suspects were wounded Wednesday in a gun battle and chase that began in Compton and ended in Long Beach, authorities said.

The shooting occurred about 1:20 a.m. in the 600 block of Rosecrans Avenue, said Deputy Byron Ward of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau.