Compton, California

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• Compton: Compensation choices can be confusing
  

  Q: I received a letter about selecting between Combat Related Special Compensation and Concurrent Receipt.

• Devising a Plan B
  

  Devising a Plan B BY LEILONI DE GRUY, Staff Writer 01.JAN.09 Worried that the state budget crisis could cost the city millions in redevelopment funds, Compton looks for new ways to keep the city solvent.

• Giving up guns for a safe holiday
  

  The Compton Sheriff's Station held a "Gifts for Guns" event on Saturday. The event was held in the parking lot of a Ralph's supermarket on the 200 block of East Compton Boulevard.

• TGIF: Weekend events in SoCal
  

  Here's a look at some of the events happening around Southern California this weekend.

• 3 Women Shot Near Compton
  

  Authorities say two women were in critical condition and a third had moderate wounds after a shooting erupted inside a home in an unincorporated area near Compton Wednesday night.

• Compton assigns funds to sobriety checkpoints
  

  Compton assigns funds to sobriety checkpoints BY LEILONI DE GRUY, Staff Writer 25.DEC.08 Concentrating mainly on holiday seasons and at a cost of $94,000, Compton initiative will last at least through ...

• SigAlert on 57 after big-rig overturns
  

  Motorists, be prepared for slick roadways today as forecasters predict back-to-back storms this week.

• Upscale housing in the inner city?
  

  The Willowbrook Avenue development sits on 6.5 acres and is considered one of Compton's biggest redevelopment success stories.

• The Weekend Guide
  

  EAT Cole's French Dip What: L.A.'s oldest saloon and sandwichery revitalized by Cedd Moses has a Neal Fraser remastered menu and Sasha Petraske and Eric Alperin classically stocked bar waiting for you.

• 04.DEC.08 Heavy exchange on a bullet market
  

  Heavy exchange on a bullet market Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Haralon Hicks looks over some of the hundreds of weapons turned in last weekend during an annual holiday season exchange.

• Upgrades on tap for waterway
  

  Compton will contribute only $100,000 to a multimillion dollar plan to make significant improvements to Compton Creek.

• Charges pending in fatal Norwalk street race
  

  Prosecutors will once more consider the case of a driver whose cousin was killed this weekend while both were allegedly street racing.

• Smoked to Perfection
  

  Bludso's serves fantastic barbecue, says TonyC . "What cue this is!" There's beef brisket smoked with apple, hickory, and sometimes oak wood, for 13 to 15 hours.

• Man killed in racing crash identified
  

  A man killed in a racing crash early Sunday morning in Norwalk was identified, authorities.

• Compton Holds Annual 'Gifts For Guns' Program
  

  Dec 7, 2008 9:38 pm US/Pacific COMPTON In yet another sign of a struggling economy, a record 965 firearms were taken out of circulation during Compton's annual "Gifts for Guns" program, the Sheriff's Department ...

• PHOTOS: Family Needs Help Replacing Donations For Soldiers
  

  Someone in Compton has stolen thousands of dollars worth of donations meant for injured U.S. troops.

• What donors gave, thieves took away
  

  The Ferraras had filled their motor home chest-deep with boxes of zip-up hoodies, underwear and eagle-emblazoned blankets -- a rolling trove of gifts intended for U.S. troops abroad.

• Guns Traded In For Gift Cards, No Questions Asked
  

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• Deputies exchange "Gifts for Guns"
  

  More guns were taken off the streets today during Compton's annual "Gifts for Guns" program, the Sheriff's Department reported.

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City Description

Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, south-southeast of downtown Los Angeles. The city was incorporated in 1888. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 93,493. An inner suburb of Los Angeles, Compton lives up to the reputation of most dangerous inner city/suburban areas across the United States due to its high level of poverty and very high violent crime rate, especially for murders, found in the city. But with the economic downturn, Compton seems like a new destination for mainly middle-class Latino and African-American individuals who are seeking affordable housing in a new bright part of Los Angeles County that once didn't seem like a place to buy a home. Not only is it an affordable city in L.A. County but it is a city changing its reputation with its new developments around the city. Despite the city's mark on African-American culture, Compton has a multiracial and multi-ethnic population. Compton is often confused with Willowbrook, East Compton, West Compton, Watts, and South Los Angeles. Compton it is often mistakenly thought to include the adjacent but unincorporated communities Willowbrook( pop 34,000) which uses

City Contained By:

• Los Angeles County
• California

City Contains:

• El Camino Compton Education Center

Timezones:

• Pacific Time Zone

Size:

• 26.4178787254 km squared

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