Eazy-E, whose real name was Eric Wright, was born in Compton. He died in 1995 at age 30 after he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. (Al Pereira / Getty Images) Soon, you can be cruising down Eazy Street in ...

Passengers hang out of a spinning car at an early morning street takeover at Compton Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue in East Compton in August. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Compton is known as ...

COMPTON, Calif. (KABC) -- Sheriff's deputies in Compton have returned to their patrol duties Monday following a chaotic weekend that involved a series of street takeovers and a mob of looters that ...

Another illegal street takeover took place in Compton overnight between Saturday and Sunday, and this one turned deadly. Two men were shot and killed near the race, and a manhunt is now underway for ...

A wave of street takeovers in Compton, including a deadly incident that killed two women Sunday, has neighbors angry and worried. A crowd showed up at the Compton City Council meeting hoping to put an ...

COMPTON, Calif. (KABC) -- Nearly a month after a large mob of looters bum-rushed a gas station in Compton following a wild night of street takeovers, residents are speaking out, telling law ...

An illegal street takeover hit a Compton neighborhood in the early hours of Monday morning — but it didn't last long — as law enforcement swarmed in to break it up. Authorities responded after reports ...

COMPTON — City officials will posthumously honor the late rapper Eazy-E on Wednesday by renaming the 100 block of Auto Drive South, which runs off Alameda Street and into the Gateway Towne Center ...

Eazy-E occupies a significant space in Hip-Hop history considering his founding of the legendary group, N.W.A., and co-founding Ruthless Records which thrust the West Coast into the spotlight. Later ...

Compton is known as the “mecca of street takeovers,” and city officials and residents are fed up with the illegal car shows. Compton Mayor Emma Sharif and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department ...