After what sounded like gunfire, FWC officials emerged from the woods with a dead bear, possibly connected to the May 5 ...

After Robert Markel's daughter called to report a bear had just killed her father's dog, officials found Markel's body yards ...

The incident was reported in the area of State Road 29 and U.S. 41, just south of the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area.

Florida wildlife officers have killed three black bears in southwest Florida following a fatal attack on a man and a dog a ...

On Monday morning, a woman called 911 after witnessing a bear attack and kill her father's dog—when authorities arrived, they ...

A man and dog were killed in a black bear attack May 5, 2025 in Collier County, Florida. It's the second bear attack this ...

The attack occurred in a rural area east of Naples, just south of Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area, authorities said.

Wildlife officials in Florida are working to find the bear, or bears, behind an attack that killed an 89-year-old man and his ...

The man killed in Florida's first recorded deadly bear attack has been identified as 89-year-old Robert Markel of Jerome, ...

A man and a dog were killed in a bear attack in rural Jerome, Florida on May 5, 2025. A family member reportedly called 911 at 7:15 a.m. after witnessing a bear kill the victim's dog. There was no ...