A circus trainer almost met his end in front of a live audience when a performing bear turned on him during a show in front of hundreds of children and parents.

After a 400-pound brown bear toppled out of a moving trailer and onto Interstate 10 in Metairie last April, prompting a federal probe into animal mistreatment, a Florida-based traveling circus ...

Jim Litz has a broken bike helmet and bruised ribs to show for the 25-mile-per-hour collision with a 300-pound black bear Monday morning while riding his bike to work from his home in upper Miller ...