A black bear has been spotted in Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties. Here's how to keep yourself safe from bear encounters.

Police are patrolling around the clock in a town in Hokkaido, northern Japan, where a man was killed by a brown bear on Saturday. The animal has not yet been found.

A motorcyclist who was gruesomely mauled to death by a brown bear in Romania took photos with the animal just before he was fatally attacked. Omar Farang Zin, a 48-year-old Italian tourist, was riding his motorcycle on the Transfagarasan Highway and stopped near the Vidraru Dam where he saw the bear on the side of the road.

Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, issued a brown bear warning Saturday following a fatal attack on a newspaper deliveryman -- the first time an alert has been issued in the region, Kyodo News reported Sunday. The warning, which applies to Fukushima in southwestern Hokkaido, will remain in effect until Aug. 11.