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overnight: an adorable black bear cub.
• Myrtle Creek Police Chief Don Brown says a teen boy and his parents dropped off the cub in a large plastic storage bin at the police station Monday. The teen found the small animal whimpering in the bushes outside his house on the outskirts of town.
• He told police the bear's mother was nowhere in sight.
• Still, Brown said it was dangerous for the teen to pick up the cub, because the mother bear could have spotted him and attacked. Adult female black bears can weigh up to 300 pounds.
• The 12-pound cub was "very well behaved" while spending the night at the station, Brown said.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Friday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2014. There are 222 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
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• On this date:
• In 1430, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
• In 1533, the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
• In 1788, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• In 1814, a second revised version of Beethoven's only opera, "Fidelio," had its world premiere in Vienna.
• In 1911, the newly completed New York Public Library was dedicated by President William Howard Taft, Gov. John Alden Dix and Mayor William Jay Gaynor.
• In 1939, the Navy submarine USS Squalus sank during a test dive off the New England coast. Thirty-two crew members and one civilian were rescued, but 26 others died; the sub was salvaged and recommissioned the USS Sailfish.
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