As more development happens in the Carolina Forest area, it leaves black bears displaced and makes them more visible to humans, said Kayla Brantley, the coastal bear biologist with the South ...

There's been an increase in black bear sightings in a Horry County community.Some residents told ABC 15 they've seen them ...

Tigers, bears and great apes, oh my! Even though South Carolina is one of the laxer states when considering exotic pets, ...

Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, who is reportedly known for using several different aliases, was arrested in South Carolina on Sunday ... a cliff while running from a bear,” and that he was injured.

A man accused of murder after a 911 call about a fake bear attack in the mountains ... The arrest of Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, 45, in Columbia, South Carolina, ends a manhunt that was launched ...

A man accused of killing a person and staging it as a fatal bear attack in Tennessee was taken into custody in South Carolina over the weekend on murder charges, in what authorities described as a ...

Officials in South Carolina and Tennessee are coordinating his extradition. Monroe County Sheriff Tommy Jones announced Oct. 25 that Hamlett, who was using the name Brandon Andrade, called 911 Oct. 18 ...

A hospital employee in Columbia, South Carolina, recognized Nicholas Hamlett ... called 911 Oct. 18 in distress to say he was chased by a bear and fell off a cliff near a waterfall.