Trial for hunter who shot husband begins

GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, Newfoundland (AP) — The trial of an American woman who said she shot and killed her husband because she thought he was a bear began in Eastern Canada on Monday.

Lambert Greene, a hunting guide, testified at the first day of the trial that Mary Beth Harshbarger became hysterical after the shooting.

Harshbarger told authorities that she mistook her 42-year-old husband for a bear while the two were hunting in central Newfoundland in 2006. She has pleaded not guilty.

Canadian officials have charged her with criminal negligence causing death. They say it was too dark to fire a gun safely.

If convicted, the 45-year-old homemaker from Pennsylvania …