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An audit by the LAUSD’s Office of Inspector General this week found that the second largest school district in the country wasted about $10 million of food in a recent school year. Also, The CA Board of Equalization (BOE), the state’s tax commission, is throwing its weight behind a plan aiming to get underground medical marijuana dispensaries to pay taxes. Then, it's T-G-I-Filmweek!

California’s drought has reopened the debate over how much growth the state can sustain in the face of a prolonged water shortage. Also, a judge says Uber must pay a $7.3 million dollar fine and turn over specific information, or cease operations completely. Then, opponents of mandatory vaccination have started collecting petition signatures for a referendum that would appear on the November 2016 ballot.

A bill in Sacramento would restrict California law enforcement from seizing assets of suspects unless there is a criminal conviction. Also, the LAPD begins a new training initiative this week called the Preservation of Life and Building Community Trust training. Then, an anonymous “Wizard of Oz” fan has put up $1 million for anyone with information that could lead to the recovery of the infamous ruby red slippers.

President Obama has granted clemency to 46 inmates who faced prison time for drug offenses. Also, a first of it's kind in California, a trial starting this week will determine the future of five frozen embryos a divorced couple is embattled over. Then, a look at an "underground railroad" operation in Northern Iraq that rescues women and children who have been taken captive by the self-declared Islamic State.

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s infamous drug lord, escaped from a maximum-security Altiplano prison Saturday night. Also, Hollywood, Koreatown and Downtown are the areas with some of the county’s most dangerous traffic intersections, according to the analysis undertaken by the LA Times. Then, Author Stephanie Hosford shares her experience of beating cancer while pregnant.

Toxins from hydraulic fracking could mean grave effects to the state’s wildlife and natural resources, according to a new study by the California Council on Science and Technology. Also, immigrant rights supporters will be protesting outside of the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel, where Trump will be delivering a speech today. Then, petitioners in LA want an iconic filmmaker's name, David Wark Griffith, scrubbed from an East LA school.

After a decade-long decline, criminal activity in Los Angeles spiked for the first half of this year by 12.7 % across nearly every category. Also, the LADWP wants to raise rates over the next five years to encourage water conservation and expand infrastructural repairs. Then, Donald Trump? Amy Schumer? What racial humor is acceptable today and how does that compare to what was acceptable in the past?

In a fundamental shift in opinion, the LA County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan today to redistribute power from the county’s chief executive officer to themselves. Then, we revisit last night's AT30 event on raising the minimum wage, taped at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood with industry experts and workers weighing in on the impact and implementation of a $15 wage hike.

Debate over ‘Sanctuary cities’ has been shoved into the national spotlight after a 32-year-old woman was shot and killed last week while walking along San Francisco’s Pier 14 with her father. Also, as technological advances continue to impact our economy and the job market, what will the future of work look like in America? Then, a bill to help terminally ill patients end their lives will no longer be considered this year.