Link: Brown Bear Swipes at Seward Boy

From the Anchorage Daily News:

A Seward boy walking to his school bus stop in the Bear Lake area was knocked down by a brown bear sow but escaped with superficial injuries Tuesday morning, according to Steve Atwater, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent.

"There were some minor puncture wounds from a claw," said Atwater, who declined to name the boy, provide his age or specify the location of the encounter.  

... Atwood said the student saw the bear approach, but when he turned to leave the fast-approaching sow knocked him down. The boy covered up, Atwater said, and sow soon lost interest and left.