Too many encounters with humans led to the demise of a 2-year-old brown bear weighing about 300 pounds. Officials determined it wasn't Shaguyik, the bear that had escaped from the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center.

A brown bear had become quite the attraction on the north side of Turnagain Arm, a few miles from Alaska's largest city, before being euthanized by state biologists.

On Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, it's occasionally more convenient for people to shoot bears than to create safeguards keeping them away from human habitations.

Karen Jettmar, a popular Alaska River guide, has pleaded guilty to theft of government property in a case where she helped a client take a 10,000-year-old mammoth tusk from federal land.