Real Estate
Evoking an English farmhouse with a half-timbered exterior, Joyce Compton’s former home features beamed ceilings, a stone fireplace and oak floors. There is a separate guesthouse and a swimming pool.
Oct. 27, 2011
Joyce Compton’s former home in Sherman Oaks for sale
Movies
Joyce Compton, 90, who graced movie screens opposite Cary Grant, Jack Benny and Clara Bow.
Oct. 16, 1997
California
Sheriff’s investigators on Saturday were still searching for the gunman responsible for the fatal drive-by shooting of a homeless man in Compton the day before, authorities said.
Nov. 29, 2014
A Compton city councilwoman said Thursday she intends to serve a recall notice by Tuesday on a judge who sentenced a Korean-born grocer to five years’ probation for killing a black girl in an argument over a bottle of orange juice.
Dec. 27, 1991
World & Nation
A judge Thursday ordered protesters to stay at least 500 feet from the Manhattan Beach home of a jurist who sentenced a Korean-born grocer to probation for killing a black teen-ager last March.
Jan. 3, 1992
There’s a ghost haunting Compton and it won’t go away.
Jan. 16, 1992
When Joyce and Randy Jordan moved to Orange County from Chicago in 1985, they soon realized that they had to make some lifestyle adjustments.
Oct. 14, 1992
Compton gadflies persist despite attempts to swat them down
March 5, 2011
Compton College Trustee Jane McCracken Astredo, 53, of Paramount died Monday of cancer.
Feb. 21, 1991