A black bear roaming around the Metro East was spotted in Mascoutah Saturday. The bear, named " Dewey " by local Facebook accounts, was spotted in a tree in Columbia; roamed around Our Lady of the ...

A black bear was seen in a tree and also spotted rummaging through trash in Morgan County on Tuesday morning. Decatur police say officers and a state game warden responded after someone reported a ...

The video shows a black bear walking right up to his door at around 4:00 a.m. on Sunday. While not common, bear sightings in this area are not new, as News 5 has learned through almost half a ...

“With a St. Mary’s bear, that’s more likely the case.” On July 5, 1986, a 141-pound black bear was shot and killed by law enforcement officers in New Market in northern St. Mary’s County.

It was shot with a tranquilizer gun Thursday morning, but the dart fell out, and the bear kept running and hopping fences in and out of backyards. At around 11 a.m., it disappeared into the ...

Although black bear sightings at the park are rare, they do happen. "Two or three times a year, we get reports of somebody seeing a bear on the Canyon Loop Trail or Alamo Loop," said Steven Haas ...