{"id":754435,"date":"2026-07-10T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754435\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:12:41","slug":"roanoke-police-warn-of-black-bear-with-severe-mange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754435\/","title":{"rendered":"Roanoke Police warn of black bear with severe mange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say the bear has \u201cexhibited aggressive behavior\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Copyright 2023 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">ROANOKE, Va. \u2013 The Roanoke City Police Department is warning people in the Star City to be on the lookout for a black bear with a severe case of mange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">It\u2019s been spotted in the area of Allendale Street Southwest and Clydesdale Street Southwest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Police want you to know that you should not approach this bear, as it has been seen to be particularly aggressive and should be considered dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">So if you see the bear, be sure to:<\/p>\n<p>Stay a safe distance away.<\/p>\n<p>Keep children and pets indoors or under close supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Do not attempt to feed, approach, or follow the animal.<\/p>\n<p>And call 911 immediately to report its location. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WSLS 10 &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities say the bear has \u201cexhibited aggressive behavior\u201d (Copyright 2023 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.) ROANOKE,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[18828,323361,79,201],"class_list":["post-754435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-roanoke","tag-roanoke-city-police-department","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754435","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=754435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}