{"id":647409,"date":"2026-05-16T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647409\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:24:08","slug":"bear-sighted-in-bethlehems-west-side-police-warn-residents-to-use-caution-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647409\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear sighted in Bethlehem&#8217;s west side, police warn residents to use caution | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Police in Bethlehem are warning residents about a bear that was spotted in the city&#8217;s west side on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police announced in a Facebook post that the bear was seen in the area of 8th Avenue near Prospect Street and Market Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police are advising residents in the area to use caution outdoors, keep children and pets inside, and to avoid approaching or attempting to follow the bear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say that the Pennsylvania Game Commission has been notified and is on the way to safely remove the animal from the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Police in Bethlehem are warning residents about a bear that was spotted in the city&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[61345,183183,79,201],"class_list":["post-647409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}