Ursa Major

RATTED OUT Forget the mystery surrounding Robert Blake's wife. The real puzzle plaguing Los Angeles is how the official "traveling bear" logo, below left, featured on California's welcome-center signs, morphed into the unidentifiable rodent-like creature, below right, on three city signs. Caltrans, the agency in charge of the state's road signs, says it has "no idea where the graphic came from" but vows to replace them all with the good old iconic grizzly bear, at a cost of $4,000 each.

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