Bear

Members of the Peoria Police Department, Peoria Animal Control and Arizona Game and Fish carry a young North American Black Bear after Game and Fish officers tranquilized the bear in North Peoria Sunday.

Bear

This North American Black Bear weighs approximately 80 pounds and appears to be in good health. Arizona Game and Fish officials will release him into a natural habitat at an undisclosed location in northern Arizona where his chances of survival are the greatest. He was captured Sunday after wandering around North Peoria.

Bears

Madge Farkas,left, and Doreen Bloomer stitch together bears, Thursday, May 27, 2010 at Desert Cross Lutheran Church in Tempe. Qwest Pioneers have made more than 10,000 “hug-a-bears.” The bears are given to first responders, like fireman and policemen, to help soothe children in traumatic situations.

Black Bears

A remote-control camera captured this image of a black bear at Tonto National Monument in 2009. [National Park Service photo]

Black Bears

A remote-control camera captured this image of a black bear at Tonto National Monument in 2009. [National Park Service photo]

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Bear Cam

In this photo taken July 17, 2012 and provided by explore.org, a brown bear catches a salmon at Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park in Alaska. A new video initiative will bring the famed brown bears of the park directly to your computer or smartphone. In a partnership with explore.org, a live webstream will be unveiled Tuesday that will allow the public to log on and see the brown bears in their natural habitat, including views of the bears catching salmon at Brooks Falls. (AP Photo/explore.org, Tahitia Hicks)

Bear Cam

In this photo taken July 17, 2012 and provided by explore.org, brown bears are shown catching salmon at Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park in Alaska. A new video initiative will bring the famed brown bears of the park directly to your computer or smartphone. In a partnership with explore.org, a live webstream will be unveiled Tuesday that will allow the public to log on and see the brown bears in their natural habitat, including views of the bears catching salmon at Brooks Falls. (AP Photo/explore.org, Tahitia Hicks)

Black bears

A remote-control camera captured this image of a black bear at Tonto National Monument in 2009.

Bear-proof food containers

The U.S. Forest Service has installed bear-proof food containers at 27 campsites in the Payson area. [Gerald Bourguet/Cronkite News]

Teddy Bear donation

Contributed

Bret Morris, president Health Net of Arizona, stands with the hundreds of bears collected by associates in the Tempe office for the annual KTAR Radiothon benefitting Phoenix Children's Hospital. Health Net associates found a way to express their support of the children in a very personal way, collecting nearly 500 teddy bears that will be delivered to the children throughout the year.

Range of black bears in Arizona

Map showing the range of black bears in Arizona.

Bearing light in the dark places

Thursday, August 4, 2011 2:00 pm

Far be it from me to evaluate the authenticity of your revelation, but here is a pretty good place to start: If the divine, by whatever name you call it, tells you to kill someone, chances are good that it is more likely to be a psychotic episode. I am not being flippant. In light of last month's horrifying shootings near Oslo, it is time for people of faith, all faiths, to agree on one very simple principle: Attaching something "sacred" to your violence does not elevate it to a noble mission. If you hear your deity calling you to murder, you need help.

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Bearing light in the dark places

Thursday, August 4, 2011 2:00 pm

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Crepes, croissants and bears

Sunday, March 27, 2011 10:00 am

The French American School of Arizona — a new, private bilingual school for children ages 1 to 6 — will host a Teddy Bear Breakfast with the Stuffington Bear Factory 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. April 9 at 2222 S. Price Road in Tempe. Cost is $5 per family. Children are invited to bring their favorite teddy bears from home and hear some classic French songs and nursery rhymes, learn the French alphabet song and enjoy arts and crafts.

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Teddy bear breakfast

Film Review Yogi Bear

In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, characters Boo Boo, voiced by Justin Timberlake, left, and Yogi Bear, voiced by Dan Aykroyd are shown in a scene from "Yogi Bear."

Sun Lakes bear

Bear on the patio of a residence.

Sun Lakes Bear

Bear at release site in Tonto National Forest.

Sun Lakes bear

Bear asleep after being tranquilized.

Cardinals gameday: Bears preview

Saturday, November 7, 2009 4:41 pm

The game will mark the halfway point of the season for Arizona, and we’re still not sure who these Cardinals are. Are they the team that marched into New Jersey and manhandled the New York Giants or the team that came home and was embarrassed by the Carolina Panthers?

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Cardinals gameday: Bears preview

JPMorgan to acquire Bear Stearns

Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:32 pm

NEW YORK - Just four days after Bear Stearns Chief Executive Alan Schwartz assured Wall Street that his company was not in trouble, he was forced on Sunday to sell the investment bank to competitor JPMorgan Chase for a bargain-basement price of $2 a share, or $236.2 million.