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Locals saved (I think) a juvenile shark that became tangled in fishing line over the weekend. Pete Thomas adds background.
Fauna
Video: Great white shark rescue at Venice Beach
More by Kevin Roderick:
Gustavo Arellano, many others join LA Times staffPower out Monday across Malibu
Put Jamal Khashoggi Square outside the Saudi consulate on Sawtelle
Here's who the LA Times has newly hired*
LA Observed Notes: Clippers hire big-time writer, unfunny Emmys, editor memo at the Times and more
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Why we never see a movie where the dog dies
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New male lions: Meet P-55 and P-56
P-51 found dead on freeway where mother and other cub died