Lynn Rogers says he was looking forward to documenting the evolution of Hope’s family as the 2-year-old bear matured. He says scientists had never gotten so close to a mixed-age bear family.

The hunter who killed the one-year-old black bear e-mailed biologists at the North American Bear Center this morning to notify them of her death. The hunter says he didn't know it was the famed bear and would have never deliberately shot Hope.

Hope -- the Ely-area bear born in front of a huge Internet audience in 2010 -- is missing. A biologist for the North American Bear Center is fearing the worst. He tells the Duluth News-Tribune that Hope may have been shot and killed by a hunter. Hope has been missing since Wednesday

Wildlife officials shot and killed a collared yearling black bear Thursday after it went into an Ely-area garage. There were children in the area, according to reports. The bear had been collared in July by Lynn Rogers of the Wildlife Research Institute in Ely, but it wasn’t one of the well-known bears tracked by Rogers and other researchers or followed by the public on Internet webcams.

A news director for Duluth's Fox 21 posted a comment on Facebook about a “drunk, homeless, Native American” who wandered into his yard and it caused a stir on social media websites. Two city of Duluth commissions requested an on-air apology.

Todd Tweedy of St. Paul was found in Baldwin and is reportedly at Regions Hospital. Friends and strangers launched a search for Tweedy via social media after he posted a message about his battle with depression and a goodbye note on his Facebook page.

A study from Internet research firm comScore suggests advertising on the social-networking platform may help boost sales. The study found people who are friends or fans of Target on Facebook were 21 percent more likely to shop at the Minneapolis-based discount retailer than those not exposed to the company's messages.