Backyard Bear Gives N.J. Woman a Scare
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MAPLEWOOD, N.J. - A woman glancing out a kitchen window in this bedroom community just west of New York City was startled to find a black bear peering back in at her.
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Sometimes hope wins. Out of all the stories we read this week the one that was most inspiring was that of Jeanna Giese, the 15-year-old Fond du Lac girl who contracted rabies after she was bitten by a bat
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CHICAGO  - On the day before her  birthday last month, Vera Farmiga was coping with discomfort  posed by a nasty strain of poison ivy she contracted near her  home in upstate New York.
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A volunteer at the Eagle River Nature Center is recovering after being bitten by a brown bear sow. Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials say Sarah Wallmer was bitten on the buttocks on the Crow Pass Trail, about a mile from the nature center.
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An author who has written books on grizzlies has survived an attack by one of the bears in America's famed Yellowstone National Park, the National Park Service said on Thursday.
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JUNEAU, Alaska - A family is mourning the loss of a beloved apple tree but they believe they know who the culprit was: a hungry brown bear. "There is a bear out there that will rip a tree down," Lavena Sargent said Tuesday morning, a day after returning from a caribou hunting trip...
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An alien species of catfish has been caught in the Delaware Raritan Canal, prompting fears among environmental officials that the voracious predator could devastate native catfish, sunfish and some sturgeon populations the way it has in southeastern states.
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PHOENIX - A Phoenix woman who kept a mountain lion and other wild animals in her home has been charged with child abuse and endangerment.  Michelle Carole Gierke, 32, admitted keeping a mountain lion, two bobcats and an African serval at her west Phoenix home.
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Each summer, the falls at McNeil River turn into a mosh pit of bears. Instead of thumping music, it's the sound of salmon slapping their way up the falls at the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary that sends the bears into a fishing frenzy.
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The apparently accidental death of a bear  in the Pyrenees has reopened a bitter row between mountain  farmers and environmentalists over whether bears should ever  have been reintroduced to the region.
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A 39-year-old woman was savaged to death by her pet bull mastiff dog yesterday. Terrified elderly neighbours could only look on as the fatal attack, which started inside Carol Leeanne Taylor&#39;s home in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham, spilled on to the ...
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New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife biologist Kelcey Burguess tending to an approximately 400-pound black bear that fell from a tall tree in a Maplewood back yard after being shot with a tranquilizer Sunday. The bruin was believed to have come from the nearby South Mountain Reservation.
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FORT MEYERS, Fla. - A pit bull who was recently adopted by a family after wondering onto a construction site may have saved a teen girl from a house fire on Friday.
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While nosing around the Quaternary mammal collection at the Provincial Museum of Alberta two years ago, Paul Matheus, a paleontologist with the Alaska Quaternary Center, came across a brown bear fossil that seemed out of place.
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ROYALTON, Ill. - A worried neighbor's call to Animal Control led to a bizarre scene at a southern Illinois home: Four officers wrestling an alligator out of a hot tub, a house filled with animal cages, and the arrest of a man wanted by the military for desertion...
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By Kathleen Merryman, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 20--By 10 a .m. Tuesday, Joseph Hunt had responded to a complaint that two pit bulls and a boxer were menacing residents, including a pregnant woman, on McKinley Hill in Tacoma.
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A brown bear kills one person and wounds several in the Transylvanian forests of Romania.