lives in the line of duty violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. The crosses were erected by the Utah Highway Patrol Association, which is a private group dedicated to supporting state troopers. The only government involvement was that the state issued permits to the association to erect and maintain these crosses next to public highways, which included the name, badge number, date of death, and other information on these fallen heroes.

A militant atheist group sued to have these memorial crosses removed. A federal district judge sided with Utah, noting that crosses are commonplace grave markers indicating where a person has died, not necessarily religious. This reality is accentuated here, since each of the fallen troopers was Mormon, and in that faith the cross is not used asA man camping in northern B.C. woke up to find a black bear sniffing him in the middle of Sunday night, after it tore through his tent's screened window.

The man was able to chase the black bear away from his campsite at Peace Island Park, but it had to be chased off a second time hours later.

It's the kind of call conservation officers dread, said Sgt. Shawn Brinsky.

"You don't ever want to hear those stories. That's about a close of a call as you can have," Brinsky said.

The bear was euthanized the next day. The conservation service said it was too "garbage conditioned" to be released.

The bear broke through the tent's mesh window, similar to this one. (Shutterstock)

Brinsky said the bear woke the man up around 1 a.m.