California: Tree-sitter rejects plan to move oak

A county leader said he would try to save a 400-year-old giant oak by moving it out of the proposed path of a four-lane road, but a man who has been living in the tree said he was afraid it would die in the move.

John Quigley, 42, has been sitting in the tree for most of November in an attempt to protect it.

Late Monday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich said he had arranged for the tree to be relocated to an undetermined location as a compromise in the standoff that began Nov. 1, when Quigley first climbed into the oak.

Quigley said the tree – known as Old Glory – already is “stressed” from drought and an earlier trimming.

He said that county planners did not adequately investigate every option, including rerouting the road around the tree.

Ohio: Search on for remaining escapee from Kentucky

State troopers searched street by street Tuesday in Columbus for one of two Kentucky jail escapees suspected in a crime spree in which one kidnapping victim remained missing.

Officers combed areas near a rest stop where a man believed to be Chadrick Fulks fled from state troopers Monday night

Fulks, 25, and L. Branden Basham, 21, escaped Nov. 4 from the Hopkins County jail in western Kentucky. They are suspected of abducting a 44-year-old South Carolina woman, who has not been found, and a 42-year-old Kentucky man, who escaped after being tied to a tree and abandoned.

Basham was arrested Sunday after allegedly trying to hijack a car from a woman and her 15-year-old daughter at an Ashland, Ky., mall. After a foot chase during which Basham and an officer exchanged gunfire, police found him in the Ohio River.