Bern’s Bear Pit, for centuries a tourist attraction and a symbol of the city, has lost its last resident to euthanasia and will be closed for good.

The bear cub could be heard but remained unseen among the barren trees and dried leaves blanketing the forest floor.

A pregnant woman who was fleeing a bear when she was struck by a slow-moving car said she would honor the euthanized animal by giving her baby the middle name “Bear.”

Police in Colorado say a pregnant woman suffered minor injuries when she was struck by a car while fleeing from an adult black bear.

Slovenia is home to about 430 brown bears, but residents of Ljubljana, the capital, rarely see any but the two who live in the local zoo.

A farmer says he’s ready to take his fight with the state Department of Natural Resources over a bear carcass to court. Neil Schlough said he was harvesting corn Nov. 26 when he realized he had hit an animal with his combine. He discovered it was a 700-po

Reggie Holmes scored 18 points and Morgan State defeated Towson 80-64 on Saturday to extend the Bears’ winning streak to eight games.

A dozen Asiatic black bears, malnourished and diseased from years spent on abusive bile-harvesting farms in southwest China, were recovering Saturday after being handed over to an animal charity group.

An Omaha man has filed a lawsuit accusing his ex-wife and former father-in-law of hiding a recording device inside his daughter’s teddy bear in order to spy on him.

From Tokyo to Mumbai, Asian stocks plunged by record amounts this year as the region’s powerhouse economies lost steam and foreign investors pulled billions of dollars from its once-booming markets.