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Homicide detectives arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of fatally shooting his step-father late Sunday night, police said Monday.

The district includes part of North Long Beach along with Carson, Compton, Wilmington and Rancho Dominguez and is currently represented by Assemblyman Isadore Hall, D-Compton. Term limits will force Hall out of office in 2014, setting up an opening for Neal, who was first elected to his 9th District council seat in 2010.

The following information is from the Redondo Beach Police Department 's Part I Crime Recap news release covering reports received April 5 through Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Compton residents go to the polls to vote for mayor. It's a wide field of candidates, including a former mayor who served time in prison, a former child actor and several activists.

Residents of Compton Tuesday cast votes for mayor on a ballot of 11 candidates running against current Mayor Eric Perrodin, the city's three-term incumbent.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Deputies shot and killed a man after he allegedly pointed a gun at them following a short chase in Compton.

A 69-year-old Dana Point woman who authorities feared had been abducted was located unharmed this morning at a gas station in Compton, authorities said.

COMPTON >> The city's latest election may be remembered as the day when voters entrusted their city to youth and a new set of leaders.

One suspect was facing possible felony charges today following the seizure by deputies of a half ton of marijuana and several ounces of methamphetamine during the investigation of a stolen tractor trailer in unincorporated East Compton.

The Lawrenceburg center, 1604 N. Locust Ave., will host a job fair from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday for Aid & Assist at Home.

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