Compton Fire Department

Federal investigators arrived at the Compton airport a day after the two planes collided on a runway. Toni Guinyard reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Thursday March 14, 2019.

Witnesses described a fiery and frightening scene after they heard two planes crash Wednesday, leaving one person dead and another hospitalized, at Compton-Woodley Airport in Compton.

Three shooting incidents over the weekend in Compton claimed four lives.
Two died Friday night from gunfire inside a home. Sunday, there were two shootings along or near Long Beach Blvd, one taking the life of an adult man, the other mortally wounding a 17-year-old girl in a car.

A person was found dead Thursday morning in the southbound lanes of the Long Beach (710) Freeway in Compton, police said

A two-alarm fire broke out in Compton at a commercial building on Saturday, fire officials confirmed.

There were moments of panic and relief when a nursing pit bull mother and her days-old puppies were rescued from an auto body shop fire in Compton Saturday morning.

A set of pit bull parents and their litter were rescued from an auto body shop fire in Compton Saturday, June 27, 2015.

A person was hit by a vehicle in a traffic collision involving a school bus at a Compton intersection Thursday morning, officials said.