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.

The Compton mayor's allegations of fraud at City Hall have at least temporarily killed the cash-strapped city's ability to get a line of credit to pay bills and prompted the resignation this week of the interim city manager.