Muddy paw prints, waist-high on the front door of the McEntire home off Small Tracts Road, may have been the death warrant for a brown bear neighbors said has become increasingly aggressive.

State troopers and biologists have given local police the go-ahead to put down the bruin.

The bear – of medium size, with light and dark rings on its face – broke through a door at the borough water plant on FAA Road, pushed…