Foraging bear spared by governor returns to town with 4 cubs

While its mother is fitted with a radio collar and ear tag by New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game officials, one of four cubs is high in a tree in Hanover, N.H., Friday, April 13, 2018. (Jennifer Hauck/The Valley News via AP)

Andrew Timmins, bear project leader with the New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game, fits a tranquilized black bear with a radio collar in Hanover, N.H., on Friday, April 13, 2018. Working with him is Nancy Comeau with USDA wildlife services. (Jennifer Hauck/The Valley News via AP)

Andrew Timmins, the bear project leader with the New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game, steps over a tranquilized black bear in Hanover, N.H., on April 13, 2018. Nancy Comeau with USDA wildlife services keeps a hand on the bear after the bear had been moved onto her side. Behind them is bear expert Ben Kilham, of Lyme, N.H., and Will Staats, a regional wildlife biologist with New Hampshire Fish and Game. The bear was tranquilized so she could be fitted with a radio collar and an ear tag. She has four cubs. (Jennifer Hauck/The Valley News via AP)

HANOVER, N.H. — A bear whose life was spared last spring by the governor has returned with four new cubs to the college town where she has feasted for the last few years.

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