stopped briefly to look back at the group and then disappeared into the woods. It was the end of a five-week journey for the bear, whose paws were burned so badly in the fire it could no longer walk.

A bear was spotted high up in a tree in a Washington neighborhood, prompting rescuers to try and get it down, firefighters ...

a real-life bear that was known as "Smokey Bear." The living Smokey Bear, Westover said, was an orphaned bear cub from New Mexico that was badly burned in a fire. "He became the living image ...