NAHUNTA, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A Florida fire chief said a 6-foot-tall wooden Smokey Bear cut-out was stolen from outside of his fire station.
BERLIN, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- German authorities said Tuesday an autopsy would be performed on the body of the zookeeper who raised the orphan polar bear cub Knut.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Anchorage home owners captured a runaway bear cub whose mother had been killed after suspicions of involvement in two state park attacks.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif., July 20 (UPI) -- A bear cub is recovering at a California animal center after a firefighter spotted it wobbling along the road on burned paws, officials say.
ORLANDO, Fla., June 29 (UPI) -- Florida officials say they rescued a 375-pound bear from drowning in the Gulf of Mexico.
OBETZ, Ohio, June 23 (UPI) -- Members of the village council in Obetz, Ohio, said they are planning a law to ban exotic pets after a bartender took a bear cub with her to work.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 18 (UPI) -- Witnesses reported spotting a bear cub in a South Brunswick, N.J., McDonald's drive-through shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Polish authorities accused tourists who wandered into the wilds of Poland of killing an 18-month-old bear, a report says.
NUREMBERG, Germany, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Officials at a zoo in southern Germany have taken a polar bear cub from its mother after another polar bear mother apparently ate her two cubs.
NUREMBERG, Germany, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Three polar bear cubs at a German zoo were at risk of starvation after being rejected by their mother.
TRUCKEE, Calif., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Officials with the California Department of Fish and Game said they planned to transfer a rescued bear cub to a hibernation den they created.
LEWISTON, Maine, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A woman in Paris, Maine, is struggling with the problem of a bear cub that appears to be fond of sleeping in the back of her pickup truck.
CHICAGO, April 22 (UPI) -- Chicago Zoological Society officials say they hope the magic that made the Berlin Zoo's Knut an international star will rub off on their own polar bear cub.
LAKE TAHOE, Nev., July 5 (UPI) -- A Lake Tahoe, Nev., man has learned the dangers of leaving a fresh pizza and alcoholic drinks in his vintage top-down convertible in bear country.
CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- An orphaned grizzly bear cub whose mother was killed by a train in the Canadian Rockies cannot be returned to the wild.
