Browse past news stories for Centennial High School in Compton, CA.

• Results of MRI put Andersen's mind at ease (Denver Post)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 08:07:53 am
  From now on, Nuggets forward Chris Andersen will be able to play at ease. What a difference one MRI makes.
• Wings of freedom (The Pueblo Chieftain)
  posted on November 15, 2009 at 11:01:15 am
  Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, located at Pueblo Memorial Airport, held an open cockpit tour of two World War II aircraft Saturday.
• School Locked Down During Hunt For Robbery Suspect (CBS 2 Los Angeles)
  posted on October 27, 2009 at 05:04:06 pm
  Centennial High School in Compton school was placed on lockdown Tuesday while authorities searched for one of two men who allegedly robbed a woman near the campus.
• BET TAKES “FIRST IN” TO COMPTON COMMUNITY: Host Tyrese to join in today's planned high school visits. (Eurweb)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 07:15:04 am
  *Tyrese Gibson, BET personality Alisha Renee and Compton Fire Department firefighters kick off the premiere of new BET series "First In" by reaching out to high school students in Compton, where the show takes place.
• 09-23-09 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 07:14:56 am
  'ADVANCE SCREENINGS' SET FOR MJ'S 'THIS IS IT': Also, global premiere events planned around the globe. *The Michael Jackson movie "This Is It" -- based on footage from concert rehearsals before his death in June – will begin showing in movie theaters the night before its official Oct. 28 release.
• Youth help clean up Compton (Daily Pilot)
  posted on September 9, 2009 at 06:42:16 pm
  A 12-foot-high wrought-iron fence topped with slanted spikes completely surrounds Centennial High School in Compton, which sits across the street from a boarded up fast food restaurant.
• Excerpt: Amazing Grace, Haven Moses (Denver Post)
  posted on July 26, 2009 at 07:24:56 am
  Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Terry Frei's recent book, "77: Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age".
• Compton Little League coach finds a diamond in the rough (The San Francisco Examiner)
  posted on May 30, 2009 at 03:30:09 pm
  LOS ANGELES — Tim Lewis has a bedtime routine. He flips on a small portable television, reclines the front passenger seat of his 1993 Toyota Camry and leans back till his trim, 6-foot-2 frame is nearly horizontal. Often he drifts off to sleep with the TV on.
• Marian Wagstaff dies at 97; teacher integrated Compton school's faculty in 1940s (Los Angeles Times)
  posted on May 24, 2009 at 01:49:38 am
  Marian Wagstaff, a far-sighted educator who turned a Compton school into a model of racial harmony and integrated its faculty years before the court rulings and civil rights protests of the 1950s and '60s, died April 26 at a nursing home in Santa Cruz. She was 97.
• April 28 community sports accomplishments, announcements, results (The Bakersfield Californian)
  posted on April 28, 2009 at 06:08:50 am
  ACCOMPLISHMENTS -- The Brigade U16 boys soccer team defeated Real So Cal Blue of Calabasas 3-1 in penalty kicks and added a 3-1 victory over Legends FC Black of Glendora on Sunday to win the State Cup championship ahead of 59 Cal South Teams and earn an invitation to the Presidents Tournament Regional Tri-Cities, Wash., June 11-14.
• In Compton, a role model coaches a role model (Los Angeles Times)
  posted on April 5, 2009 at 01:16:38 am
  The amazing Grovinya "Sweets" Underwood is on my left, her aunt on my right, her basketball coach in front of me. We're sitting in the library at Centennial High in Compton, talking about the odds against beating the odds.