California snacking ‘Safeway Bear’ shot and killed

LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A black bear that was caught on video snacking on food in stores near Lake Tahoe has been shot and killed when it refused to leave a California campsite. The California Department of Fish and Game announced Thursday that the 500-pound male dubbed the “Safeway Bear” was killed in August when it repeatedly encroached on a family campsite in the Sierra Nevada. The 15-year-old male was recorded last year rummaging in stores on Tahoe’s North Shore. Authorities relocated the bear to wilderness and hoped it would return to a natural diet. But they say it was emaciated by the time it died.