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Rival gangs in Los Angeles banded together in the streets of Compton on August 18 with the help of Keenon Dequan Ray Jackson, who is known to the world as YG. According to TMZ, over the weekend, the ...

YG led a truce walk in Compton on Sunday, August 18 to help bring an end to a ten-year rivalry between the Fruit Town Pirus and Treetop Pirus gangs. Joined by members from both gangs, The Game and ...

Seaside police hosted a free speaking series today featuring Reggie Wright Sr., the head of security for Death Row Records and a former Compton police officer, to discuss the history of gangs in ...

Streets of Compton is a 2016 documentary mini-series that tells the true story of the City of Compton, highlighting how a city plagued by gangs and drugs transformed into a cultural powerhouse. It ...

A retired police officer claims that the nephew of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, the man charged in the 1996 murder of rap star Tupac Shakur, confessed to being the triggerman in the drive-by shooting that ...

COMPTON, Calif. -- It is a Sunday morning and there is still dew on the grass outside Faith Inspirational Missionary Baptist Church. Already, God has received a standing ovation. The thermometer on ...

An attorney is urging the state to decertify the second-highest-ranking official in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, accusing her of committing perjury last year during a civil trial when ...