FWC is meeting May 21 in Ocala to discuss rules for a 23-day Florida bear hunt in December. Follow along for latest updates.

One of the three, a 263-pound male, was positively identified by his DNA being on the dog, inside the trailer and on Markel’s ...

A bear hunt was already on the state's May agenda, but the first documented human killing on May 5 lit a fire under an ...

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for today’s primary election. Many posts lack candidates, including every job in Armagh, Cherry Tree and Smicksburg, and two school director jobs in the ...

Investigators said the remains of 89-year-old Robert Markel were found about 100 yards from his home in rural Jerome. They ...

The partial remains of an 89-year-old Florida man were found in one of the bears Florida Fish and Wildlife officials captured ...

The FWC said Markel's remains were found in a male black bear they captured and euthanized after the tragic incident occurred ...

Lab results have connected one of three black bears killed by wildlife officers in southwest Florida to a fatal attack on a ...

An 89-year-old man and his dog have died in a black bear attack in southwest Florida, marking the first confirmed fatal attack in the state's history. Jerome, Fla., resident Robert Markel was found ...

DNA, necropsy results show that just one of three bears shot by wildlife officials was responsible for fatally mauling Robert ...

Robert Markel's granddaughter told authorities she saw a bear maul her grandfather's dog but couldn't find him. Markel's dog ...