Compton News

Valentine's Dinner Dance. The United Methodist Men of First United Methodist Church in Compton will host their annual Valentine's Dinner Dance at 6 tonight at the Carson Community Center, 3 Civic Plaza Drive, Carson.

Deputies opened fire about 8:15 a.m., wounding a man in a neighborhood at the 1400 block of Pearl Avenue, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept.

The shooting occurred about 8:15 a.m. near Van Ness and Rosecrans avenues, said Lt.

Jazz concert. Award- winning five-person vocal jazz ensemble Down 4 The Count will entertain at 2 p.m. Sunday at Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach, 5450 E. Atherton St.

About 6:10 p.m. Saturday, an unidentified man was walking northbound in the roadway on Compton Boulevard, west of Williams Avenue, when he was struck by a motorist driving a maroon four-door sedan.

A man who pointed an assault weapon at sheriff's deputies in Compton, drawing fire without being hit, was in custody today after a foot chase that climaxed with his capture, authorities said.

The Sacramento River Discovery Center's Thursday Evening Program series featured Doug Compton from the Tehama County Department of Agriculture.