BEAR ATTACK

The 35-year-old zookeeper who was “viciously” attacked Wednesday by a 5-year-old North American black bear at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens suffered many lacerations on her head, back and thighs, according to a police report obtained Thursday by News 6 partner News4JAX.

Sheriff's officials in Wyoming say a distress signal initially thought to be from a crashed aircraft led searchers to a backpacker who’d been mauled by a grizzly bear.

The U.S. Army has identified Staff Sgt. Seth Michael Plant of Saint Augustine, Florida, as the soldier who died earlier this week after a bear attack in Anchorage.

A U.S. Army soldier has died of injuries sustained in a bear attack.

A grizzly bear attacked and killed a bicyclist who was camping in a western Montana town early Tuesday.