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Extra, Extra: Bikini Girl Puts on Chains, No New Bars in Strip Club Central, and a Great White Shark Sighting
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Here's a girl in a bikini showing you how to put chains on your tires, courtesy of Big Bear Mountain Resorts.
- After a high-speed freeway chase, police arrested a Highland man suspected of a 2010 murder.
- A 31-year-old Menifee man called police to turn himself in after allegedly shooting and killing his girlfriend.
- A 17-year-old boy from Orange will meet the blood and platelet donors who saved his life on Friday.
- Police and volunteers didn't find the gun used to kill Francisco Rodriguez in a Calabasas landfill, but will try again tomorrow.
- The City of Industry is trying to ban new bars from opening in town.
- A great white shark was spotted at Imperial Beach near San Diego.
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