Compton Neighborhood Recovering After Massive Pallet Yard Fire Destroys Structures
The cleanup continued Thursday for a massive pallet yard fire that sent flames and plumes of thick black smoke into the Compton sky on Wednesday.
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The cleanup continued Thursday for a massive pallet yard fire that sent flames and plumes of thick black smoke into the Compton sky on Wednesday.
The shooting occurred at around 5:50 a.m. in the 1600 block of East Kay Street, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Rodney Donaldson Jr. was walking in the 500 block of North Kemp Street in Compton the night of Jan. 2 when he was shot and killed.
10 people were arrested at a DUI/driver's license checkpoint in Compton between 6 p.m. Friday through 2 a.m. Saturday.
More vaccine sites are opening up in Los Angeles County to help get shots to underserved communities hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two ex-convicts, who were rival gang members, were sentenced on Friday in the shooting death of 3-year-old Franklin Pon-Ros.
The fire sparked transformer explosions which lit up the sky. The blaze also spread to a nearby bus yard, setting several buses ablaze.
Tracy Walker, 56, implicated himself in the three murders, which dated back to last summer, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's officials.
The partnership, the first of its kind in Los Angeles County, plans to vaccinate tens of thousands of Compton residents once community vaccination begins.
A Rancho Palos Verdes woman whose 2-year-old daughter died in 2019 after being left in a car overnight with the heater running was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 15 years in state prison.
Shadi Seyedyousef, a resource specialist at KIPP Compton Community School, will be a "frontline hero" contestant on Wednesday's episode of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
Deputies identified a woman who died this month from injuries in a November shooting.
Brought together in grief by the death of a beloved special needs teacher, a Compton community is mourning an unexpected loss.
A man had at least one gunshot wound and appeared to have been struck by at least one vehicle that fled the scene, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's officials.
Shontel Aunyet Harris, 25, was last seen walking in the area of 124th and Compton streets in Compton on Sept. 13. She suffers from depression and her family is very concerned for her safety, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's officials.
Brownie, a 2-year-old Labrador, is the newest arson investigator with the Compton Fire Department. She is only the second arson K9 in all of Los Angeles County.
The Compton Pledge, which will be launched by the end of this year, will distribute cash relief to a pre-verified group of low-income Compton residents.
Ross Dress for Less is opening a second store in Compton on Oct. 24, the company announced Tuesday.
Opponents of the plan to bring back limited in-person learning say the district has not yet made safety plans clear to help prevent the transmission of coronavirus.
One of the two wounded deputies remains hospitalized Thursday.
No suspect has been formally identified by the LASD.
Authorities Sunday announced a $100,000 reward in connection with the manhunt of a lone gunman responsible for shooting two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies in an apparent ambush.
A local reporter was one of two people arrested Saturday outside of the hospital where two wounded deputies were taken for treatment following an ambush-style unprovoked shooting in Compton.
At President Donald Trump's first indoor rally since June on Sunday, he called for the death penalty for people who kill police officers.
