A Connecticut woman used her metal water bottle to fight off a mother bear that grabbed her dog and dragged her away into the ...

A BACKPACK, A BEAR, AND EIGHT CRATES OF VODKA. Lev Golinkin. Doubleday, $25.95. 320 pages. By ALEXIS BURLING/Special to The Oregonian. Upon first glance at the jacket copy for Lev Golinkin's debut ...

Lev Golinkin’s “A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka” is the latest book to mine this territory. Golinkin starts his memoir in 2003 as he’s graduating from Boston College with no ...

The $149 Back Attack Pack from UDAP Industries is made to attach to the outside of any backpack. The pack fits any size can of bear spray.

Aug. 23 (UPI) --A California woman on a fishing trip with her family captured video of a large bear that visited their lakeside location and tore into her backpack.Sandra Endo, who works for KTTV ...

April 11 (UPI) --A polar bear at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium was filmed making an apparent attempt to attack a visitor's penguin-shaped backpack.Polar bears and penguins typically live on ...

So the fact that Lucas brainstormed a design for a new way to deploy bear spray from a backpack actually makes sense. Skip to main content Spokane, Washington Est. May 19, 1883 ...

A hungry bear in search of food broke into cars, a home, two garages and stole a backpack in Montana, wildlife officials say. Now officials are looking to trap and kill the bear, and are reminding ...

Golinkin's fascinating memoir, "A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka" (the vodka was used for bribes) tells two stories. The first follows the family's 1989 emigration — the nerve ...