A spokesman with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Wednesday that two hikers’ encounter with a black bear in the Ozarks over the weekend was much less dramatic than social media posts and ...

A bear is believed to have attacked and killed a 60-year-old Missouri man who was camping in the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas in a rare fatal attack, according to local officials. The man's ...

Sam’s Throne, a popular campground in the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in Arkansas, was the site of tragedy this week. On October 2, local sheriffs found a 60-year-old man deceased in one of the ...

NEWTON COUNTY, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Newton County Sheriff says a bear believed to be responsible for fatally attacking a man from Springfield, Missouri, at a campground last week has been killed.

A Missouri man was found dead from a likely bear attack this week, just two days after he sent photos to his family of a bear at his campsite in Arkansas, according to officials. Police found the ...

Congregation members Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53, died in the attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. Police say Daulby was accidentally shot by an armed officer as he ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Two experts discuss bear safety following a possible second bear-related death in Arkansas in 2025. A Missouri man’s body was found near a campsite in Newton County.

A man mauled at a remote campsite sent photos of a bear to his family before his death, Arkansas sheriff’s deputies said. The Arkansas State Crime Lab ruled the man’s death an animal mauling and the ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Fatal bear attacks in Arkansas have gone up for the first time in a century. A Franklin County man died after a bear attack in mid-September, and now the state crime lab is ...

This story has been updated to include autopsy results. A 60-year-old man from Springfield was found dead at an Arkansas campground Thursday, Oct. 2. An autopsy has confirmed the man was killed from ...