Teen With Cancer Finally Kills a Bear

A teenager with brain cancer whose desire to shoot a bear created an uproar among animal rights activists has killed a brown bear in Alaska, it was reported. Erik Ness, 18, killed the almost 700-pound, 7-foot, 9-inch-tall animal near the Situk River during an unpublicized trip last month paid for by the Minnesota chapter of Safari Club International, a club for hunters. Earlier this year, the Minnesota chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a group that tries to fulfill the dreams of dying children, sent the boy on what proved to be an unsuccessful hunting trip to Alaska despite protests from animal rights groups. Ness has brain cancer, though the disease is in remission.