Compton News

A former Compton Fire Department deputy chief from Torrance pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he set a fire at his department's headquarters to cover up the theft of thousands of dollars worth of Motorola radios he sold over the Internet.

The Miss Compton pageant is one of the most life changing events to hit the Los Angeles County.

Two Compton men are charged with snatching a 68-year-old woman's gold chain from her neck and knocking her down as she left the Roadium swap meet in Torrance, police said Monday.

Los Angeles Sheriff investigators examine the 500 block of Long Beach Blvd. in Compton, Calif., on May 5, 2013, after an early morning shooting left one man dead and another man injured.

A 21-year-old man was killed and a 23-year-old man wounded in a pre-dawn shooting attack in Compton today.

A 36-year-old man who tried to kidnap a stranger Wednesday at a Carson shopping center was chased two miles until he crashed into another car and was arrested, sheriff's deputies said.

Two men, one in his mid-30s and the other in his early 20s, were wounded around 10:20 p.m. Monday in a shooting in the 1700 block of West Laurel Street, said Lt.

Former child actor Rodney Allen Rippy outside Compton City Hall in Compton, Calif.

In many parts of Mexico, the pig is king. From fried skin to chopped ears to ground chorizo, puerco is the carne of choice for millions of Mexicans every day.

Sheriff's deputies pursued a suspected drunk driver from Compton into Lynwood, where he tried to ram their cruiser with his Ford Mustang, authorities said today.