Headlines: Kendrick Drops “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers;” Grade Schoolers Sickened By Cannabis Chips In Perris

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—2022 Taco Madness winner Villa's Tacos has been on KTLA and NBC this week, and will be talking with Ryan Seacrest on the radio today. [NBC, KTLA]

—56-year-old Steve Lee Dominguez was arrested this week and charged with two counts of bias-motivated interference with federal protected activities, after harassing participants in a Stop Asian Hate rally in Koreatown last year. [NBC]

—A third grade teacher in Glendale has received threats and been transferred from her classroom out of safety concerns after showing videos celebrating gay pride and love in 2021. [LAT]

—Joe Buscaino has dropped out of the LA Mayoral race to support billionaire Rick Caruso. [LAist]

—The California Coastal Commission has rejected a plan for a massive desalination plant in Huntington Beach, despite it having a pretty cool name. [LAT]

—Kendrick Lamar dropped his new album, "Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers," last night. [Complex]

—The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation is providing 500 South Los Angeles students with new shoes, through nonprofit Shoes That Fit. They'll also be going to a game. [ABC]

—A 16-year-old was killed and two others hospitalized in a shooting at a Corona apartment building. [NBC]

—Restaurant critic Merrill Shindler takes a look at the make-them-yourself tacos at Encanto in Los Feliz. [The Eastsider]

—A woman in El Salvador was just sentenced to 30 years in prison for homicide after losing her unborn fetus in a medical emergency. [Vice]

—Several elementary students ate chips believed to be laced with weed in Perris and were taken to the hospital. [Yahoo]

—"A group of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) deputies working in the county jail in Castaic are part of a white supremacist, Ku Klux Klan–themed gang that engages in misconduct and violence against incarcerated people," writes journalist Cerise Castle. [Knock-LA]

—A look into Emtrain's laudable efforts to launch and adhere to a four-day work week. [NBC]