A Mississippi taxidermist must pay $4,300 for hiding the skin of a threatened Louisiana black bear from investigators, and a man who helped take the bear to him must pay an equal amount.
A college party got a little wild when a black bear showed up. The black bear, weighing between 300 and 400 pounds, crashed the party near the campus of Lehigh University.
Wildlife officials say an adult black bear scratched its way into a tent and bit a man on his forearm at a campground on the eastern end of Ruedi Reservoir near Aspen.
Every spring, adolescent male black bears wander into Arkansas cities looking for food. They're the nomads of bear society, kicked out of their dens to make room for the next litters and looking for easy meals.
Police have shot and killed a black bear that wandered into the backyard of a central New Jersey home where a yard sale was being staged.
Black bear populations have been slowly increasing throughout southern New England in recent decades.
The Missoulian reports Brandy Taylor and her husband were watching a movie in their home when they heard a crash near their garbage cans around 1 a.m.
A young black bear has been a backyard spectacle in a central Louisiana neighborhood where he has spent the past week up one tree or another as he searches for a new home.
Authorities were called to capture the cemetery bear. But they wouldn't tranquilize it because of how far the bear was up in a tree.
Authorities estimate the bear weighed between 400-500 pounds. The bear continued walking after being struck and was hit by another vehicle on the other side.