I believe you may be referring to the story here near Kansas City, MO, where a mountain lion (cougar) was hit by a car mand killed. The "cat" had been feeding on the local deer population near the Missouri river. I was hunting Mushrooms in the area about 5 years ago and saw tracks of what appeared to be a big cat running down a deer. Both tracks were intermingled. The hair on the back of my neck stood up of course.
Could be. I had the radio on as background. Saw a documentary on cat attacks a while back. I think they said
the Rocky Mountain cat was the largest in North America at 165lbs IIRC.
Had an Osprey scare the heck out of me when it dropped a fish ten yards or so away, once.