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What The Hal? — 261 episodes

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258: New recycling trends

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257: In Depth: Jewish American Heritage Month

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256: In Depth: Arthritis Awareness Month, ReWear

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255: In Depth: Drones

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254: In Depth: Stress Awareness Month

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253: In Depth: Celebrating Armenian Heritage

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252: In Depth: Community Rebuilding and California Service Corps

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251: In Depth: Big Bear's Baby Bald Eagles

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250: In Depth: Air Travel, Spring Break

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249: In Depth: Music Recovers

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248: In Depth: Little Tokyo Endangered

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247: In Depth: Cardiac Health, Human Lifespan, Kindness

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246: Community resources during the California wildfires

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245: In Depth: Fire Victims Rights, New Laws, The Change Reaction

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244: In Depth: Sup. Horvath on post-fire recovery

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243: In Depth: Insurance questions impact fire recovery process

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242: In Depth: History of Roses

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241: In Depth: Fighting Food Insecurity

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240: In Depth: Hate Crimes Report, Fighting Child Sex Trafficking

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239: In Depth: Best of 2024

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238: In Depth: 2024 Favorites

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237: In Depth: Mayor's Fund, Lestonnac Free Clinic, Indigenous Fashion Collective

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236: In Depth: Helping Veterans

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235: In Depth: Firearms Laws, Health, and 'Sober October'

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234: In Depth; Ticket Scams, Rescue Groups, Day of the Dead

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233: In Depth: Employment

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232: In Depth: Palos Verdes land movement, UCLA Rape Treatment Center

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231: In Depth: Climate Change, 'Good People'

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230: In Depth: Data Breaches, Traffic Stops

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229: In Depth: LA County Libraries

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228: In Depth: Trigger Warnings, Depression Treatment, Diseases

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227: In Depth: Back to School

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226: In Depth: Found/LA and Molly Malone's

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225: In Depth: Saving LA's Gems: Cliftons and Old Town Music Hall

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224: In Depth: Disability Pride, Mychal's Cafe, San Bernardino Animal Services

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223: In Depth: Parks and Summer Activities

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222: In Depth: New Laws, Supreme Court Homeless Issue

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221: In Depth: Benadryl Challenge

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220: In Depth: Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center

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219: Home Kitchens and Revolution Carts

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218: In Depth: Habitat for Humanity, Nicolas Junior High tiny homes

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217: In Depth: Hollywood Fringe Fest, Disability Film Awards

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216: In Depth: Volunteers of 'Together in Service'

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215: In Depth: New LA DEA Chief and Addiction Doctor

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214: In Depth: Too Good To Go and Waymo

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213: In Depth: AI, Nudes, and TikTok

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212: In Depth: New Tax Laws, Money and Investments, Real Estate

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211: In Depth: Courthouse Troubles, Scaling Peaks

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210: In Depth: Mudslides, Mentors, Freedom, and Fashion

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209: In Depth: Valentine's Day

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208: In Depth: Stealing Copper, 'California Dream for All'

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207: In Depth: Retail Theft

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206: In Depth: Culture and Institutions

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205: In Depth: Fentanyl, Snapchat, and Social Media Dangers

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204: In Depth: New Laws

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203: In Depth: CARE Court

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202: In Depth: Organ Transplants

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201: In Depth: Contractors and Shop Local

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200: In Depth: Thanksgiving Special

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199: Scams and hacks

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198: In Depth: NASA Techrise and Wisk Air Taxi

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197: In Depth: Farms

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196: In Depth: Icons Of LA

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195: In Depth: October Events

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194: In Depth: Doing Good: Teeth, Adaptive Sports, Music

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193: In Depth: Animal Rescues, Rock & Roll Radio Theater

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192: In Depth: Student Loans, Green Dot Schools

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191: In Depth: Suicide Prevention Month

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190: In Depth: Alzheimers and Music

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189: In Depth: LAX Modernization

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188: In Depth: LA Metro

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187: In Depth: Gas Stoves

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186: In Depth: Long Beach attractions bouncing back

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185: In Depth: Summer of Strikes

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184: In Depth: Disability Pride Month

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183: In Depth: Catalytic Converters, Travel, Vehicles

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182: In Depth: Theater

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181: In Depth: Cancer Survivor Month

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180: In Depth: Artificial Intelligence

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179: In Depth: Skydivers and Skid Row Runners

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178: In Depth: Helping Dogs

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177: In Depth: Tiki

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176: In Depth: San Pedro

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175: In Depth: Tranq, Fentanyl, Vaping

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174: In Depth: Celebrating Armenian History

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173: In Depth: Wastewater and Disease

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172: In Depth: Water and School Greening

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171: In Depth: LAPD release of officer information

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170: In Depth: Women in Non-Traditional Jobs

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169: In Depth: Glendale

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168: In Depth: Congressman Brad Sherman, Pet Safety

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167: In Depth: Oscars

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166: In Depth: Epilepsy

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165: Black aviation

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164: In Depth: Supervisor Kathryn Barger

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163: In Depth: Long COVID

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162: In Depth: Mass shooting aftermath

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161: In Depth: Rockhaven Sanitarium

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160: Learning loss and tutoring

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159: In Depth: New California laws

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158: Biggest threats of holiday season

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157: In Depth: Thanksgiving Special

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156: In Dept: Faces of Fentanyl

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155: In Depth: Holiday Travel

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154: In Depth: Youth and Mental Health

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153: In Depth: Halloween, Spooky Not Scary

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152: In Depth: Propositions, Red Cross volunteers

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151: Understanding propositions 26 and 27

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150: Preparing for fire season

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149: In Depth: Alternate Endings

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148: In Depth: Cannabis

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147: In Depth: Old Los Angeles

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146: In Depth: Lightning

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145: In Depth: Student Loan Crisis

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144: In Depth: Monkeypox, AI and Imaging, Medical Corps in Ukraine

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143: In Depth: California and the Space Race

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142: In Depth: COVID therapies and transplants

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141: In Depth: Parks and butterflies

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140: In Depth: Beat the Heat

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139: In Depth: Travel woes

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138: In Depth: Therapy dogs, Press Club awards, and JBay

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137: The Future of Food and the Restaurant Revolution

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136: In Depth: Inflation, Pride Parade, Summer Movies

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135: In Depth: Entrepreneurs, Comfort Cases, Brian Banks

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134: In Depth: Water Woes

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133: In Depth: Saving LA's Gems

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132: In Depth: Mental Health Awareness Month

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131: Helicopter News Coverage, 25 Years of the Melrose Trading Post, Descanso Art Garden

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130: 30 years since the LA Riots

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129: The history of the LAX dunes

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128: Aphasia, sideshow and student loans

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127: Electric vehicles

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126: Coping with mental health

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125: The benefits of composting

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124: Omicron variant, Holly Mitchell, Roz Wyman

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123: Thanksgiving COVID retrospective

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122: Traveling after the COVID-19 pandemic

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121: Keeping your kids and pets safe this Halloween

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120: The effort to ban off-shore drilling, OC oil spill recovery efforts, virtual learning's impact on students

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119: COVID update, breakthrough infections, refugee health assistance

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118: California recall election, eviction moratorium, LAUSD redistricting

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117: Veterinarian shortage impacting SoCal pet owners

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116: Hiring Obstacles, Guaranteed Income, Chris Carter

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115: Getting ready for back to school

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114: Fighting Food Insecurity

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113: Car sales, cord blood awareness, Orange County Fair

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112: Coming back from COVID-19

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111: A discussion with LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn

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110: Fourth of July celebrations in a post-pandemic time

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109: Super Bowl Committee recognizes 56 Los Angeles champions

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108: Brushfire Preparations

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107: Welcome back SoCal

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106: Hal and Joab on a path to recovery

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105: Rising Up: Social injustice

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104: Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month

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103: Mental health and COVID-19

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102: Internet scams

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101: COVID-19 vaccine and kids, live theater coming back

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100: COVID-19 long haulers, stimulus payments, real estate

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99: DUI epidemic

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98: LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva on the COVID-19 vaccine

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97: Vaccine update, mission to Mars, SECTOR

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96: Cracking down on fentanyl overdoses

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95: Overcoming the fear of doctor visits during the pandemic

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94 - 52 in 52: Tarzana

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93 - 52 in 52: Downey

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92 - 52 in 52: Carson

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91 - 52 in 52: Yorba Linda

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90 - Get to know Matt Atchity with Moviefone

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89 - Award winning songwriter Diane Warren

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88 - Latin Country singer Dianña Parro

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87 - Music Education: Meet LAUSD's top performing high school band

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86 - Braille Institute helping those who are visually impaired master technological devices

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85 - Learning about the game of pickleball

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84 - Raising awareness about human trafficking

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83 - Keeping yourself safe from illnesses while onboard cruise ships

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82 - Red Cross volunteers making a difference in the world

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81 - A local firefighter’s fight against ALS

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80 - Stop the Bleed

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79 - LA City Council President Herb Wesson's search for his son

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78 - How to avoid holiday scams

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77 - Discussing fire trends and new tools with LA City Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas

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76 - Meet Officer Byrd with the LAPD

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75 - Saugus Strong: Students, parents reflect on deadly school shooting

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74 - Wednesday’s Child: Finding kids a forever home

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73 - Fighting wildfires in California and the new tools being used

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72 - Halloween Safety and raising awareness for autism with blue Halloween buckets

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71 - Emmy Awards

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70 - The United State of Women

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69 - Cold Case Murders

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68 - Devastating fires in the Amazon rainforest

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67 - Gunshot sounds and anxiety

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66 - Words from Holocaust survivors

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65 - Discussing mass shootings from those who have experienced them

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64 - The Dangers of Social Media

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63 - Motown's first A&R man

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62- School Standouts

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61- 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing

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60 - State of Recycling in California 2019

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59 - Harden your home against wildfires

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58 - Digging through 70 years of TV archives

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57 - Remembering Woodstock 50 years later, with Sweetwater

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56 - Michael Jackson's Death 10 Years Later: A Conflicted Legacy?

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55 - Adaptive technology

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54 - Healing the environment with TreePeople

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53 - Signs and symptoms of male breast cancer

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52 - The air we breathe

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51 - Affordable college: is there such a thing?

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50 - Next steps in LA's public transportation

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49 - News Literacy Project

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48 - Surviving the earthquake: Recover

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47 - Surviving the earthquake: Survive

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46 - Surviving the earthquake: Prepare

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45 - Training programs in cloud computing and the medical field

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44 - Teaching students the signs of human trafficking

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43 - Strokes, and the BEFAST warning method

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42 - WorkingNation: Reporting on the future of work and jobs

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41 - Skye Patrick, Librarian of the Year!

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40 - How public works officials are handling the recent rainfall

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39 - Establishing a smoke-free city; John Wayne Cancer Foundation

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EXTRA: The Heaven's Gate True Crime Story

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38 - Easterseals: Celebrate. Don't Separate

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37 - The future of the Salvation Army Kettle campaign

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36 - Carnival Cruise Line's new ship out of Long Beach: The Panorama

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35 - LA County Fire Chief Daryl Osby

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34 - Teachers' Strike and the State of Education

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33 - Ask Hal!

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32 - California Earthquake Authority: Talking insurance options

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31 - Meet California's youngest female mayor; Remembering '41'

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30 - The growing threat of wildfires

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29 - Mr. Traffic on how to deal with the congested LA freeways

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28 - Fighting organized retail theft and shoplifting during the holidays

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27 - County agencies talking about animal rescues, zero kill, anti-puppy mill

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26 - The film and TV career of actress Sally Kirkland

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25 - The untold story of the Menendez family & murder case

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24 - Community leaders uniting after the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting

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23 - Talkin World Series with Dodgers historian and stadium announcer

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ENCORE: Chris Carter talks Beatles (KTTV 70th Anniversary)

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22 - Twenty years with the Aquarium of the Pacific

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21 - LAPD Public Information Director Josh Rubenstein

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20 - Smart phone dependency, addiction and hacking

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19 - Las Vegas Shooting Anniversary: Route 91 Strong

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18 - Las Vegas Shooting anniversary + agencies want to hear from victims

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17 - The California Coast Arthritis Bike Classic

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16 - The Chatsworth Train Collision: 10 years later

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15 - It's back-to-school: Security, finances and education

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14 - Operation Healing Forces: When our troops come home

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13 - Chris Carter talks Beatles, DJing, and Dramarama

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12 - Los Angeles issues, with county supervisor Hilda Solis

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11 - Helping our homeless neighbors

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10 - Electric scooters (Bird, Lime): The creators and the law enforcers

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9 - How LADWP deals with heat storms, aging infrastructure

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8 - Velasco family talks about the San Bernardino attack, losing Yvette

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7 - InSight Mission to study the inner space of Mars

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6 - The State of Hate

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5 - World Hip Hop Dance Champs TLxWC

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4 - Teen Talk app for supporting teens

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3 - Fire season: Personal stories and prep tips from Ventura County firefighters

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2 - The RFK assassination: 50 years later

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1 - George Takei talks Star Trek, internment camps and his musical

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