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Connecticut lawmakers vote to allow people to use deadly force as the bear population grows
Connecticut lawmakers voted Friday to take steps to protect people from the state's growing bear population. But they stopped far short of a bear hunt and restrictions on people unintentionally feeding the hungry animals. The legislation, which cleared the House of Representatives on...
Reward at $6,000 for information about fatal shooting of black bear in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A $6,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest of whoever fatally shot a Louisiana Black Bear found in Lincoln Parish last month. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said in a news release Thursday that its agents...
Niagara Falls tourist attraction Marineland facing charges over care of its black bears
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) — Ontario has charged the Niagara Falls, Ontario, tourist attraction Marineland over the care of its black bears. The Ministry of the Solicitor General said Wednesday charges were laid out on Tuesday. “Marineland of Canada, Inc. in...
Bear that attacked young children caught and euthanized, officials say
MOUNTAIN TOP, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a bear that attacked and injured two young children playing in the driveway of a northeastern Pennsylvania home has been captured and euthanized. The Pennsylvania Game Commission said Friday that two bears, a male and a female, had been...
Bear helps itself to 60 cupcakes from Connecticut bakery, scares employees
AVON, Conn. (AP) — A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away. Workers at Taste by Spellbound in the town of Avon were loading cakes into a van for delivery on Wednesday when the...
Bear who killed runner in Italy's Alps is spared death for now by court
ROME (AP) — A ruling by an administrative court in Italy’s Alpine region on Friday spared, for now, the life of the bear who fatally attacked a runner last month. The brown bear, identified as Jj4, was captured on April 18 following an intensive, two-week, hunt launched after a...
Environmental groups prevail on limit to grizzly bear deaths in Wyoming cattle grazing area
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An appeals court is sending a plan to allow continued cattle grazing in a vast, mountainous area of western Wyoming back to federal forest and wildlife officials, telling them to consider limiting how many of the area's female grizzly bears may be killed for preying on...
Wyoming black bear hunter accused of killing protected grizzly near highway into Yellowstone
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming hunter faces up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine if convicted of killing a protected grizzly bear he allegedly claims he mistook for a legal-to-hunt black bear outside Yellowstone National Park. The male grizzly weighing about 530 pounds (240...
Bear in a tree holds Michigan city in suspense for hours on Mother's Day
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A city in northern Michigan has a new Mother's Day memory: A 350-pound bear was in a tree for hours, watched by dozens of people, before it fell asleep and dropped onto mattresses below. “It’s like the best block party ever,” Annette Andersen said....
Researchers radio-collar 1st bear in mountains near LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the first time, researchers have captured and radio-collared a bear in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles where mountain lions have been studied for two decades, the National Park Service said Wednesday. The 210-pound (95-kilogram) black bear dubbed...
