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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)

TV host and zookeeper Jack Hanna says he took his own advice and used pepper spray on a grizzly bear headed toward him. The Columbus Zoo keeper and frequent David Letterman guest said he was with his wife and other hikers in Glacier National Park on Saturday when a bear cub, weighing about 125 pounds, charged them. Hanna told The Columbus Dispatch that he held up a canister of pepper spray, which he takes routinely on hikes. "At about 30 feet, I unload my pepper spray, and the wind takes it," he told the newspaper. But the be...