In the news
David Cox, a tree moving specialist, said an 800,000-pound, 10-story sequoia grown from a seedling that was donated to Boise, Idaho, by naturalist John Muir more than a century ago is in good health after being moved two city blocks in June to make way for a hospital expansion.
Shane Owen, 46, had to call 911 in Salt Lake City to be freed after he accidentally locked himself in the boiler room of the church where he was hiding to avoid being arrested on burglary warrants, police said.
Phil Ivey, an American professional poker player, lost before the British Supreme Court when it upheld a lower-court ruling that Ivey and a colleague used an illegal technique called “edge sorting” to amass $10.2 million in winnings playing baccarat at a London casino in 2012.
Pope Francis plans to make his first call to the International Space Station and its six astronauts, including Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, who was aboard the station in 2011 when Pope Benedict XVI made the first papal space station call.
Guan Zong Chen, an Australian citizen who also goes by Graham Chen, pleaded guilty to masterminding a scheme to smuggle items made of rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory and coral worth about $700,000 to China, federal prosecutors in Boston said.
Angeli Perrow, a children’s book author, pushed to fix a spelling error on the gravestone of Sgt. Leopold Hegyi, who was the caretaker of Fort Knox in Prospect, Maine, in the 1800s, after she learned as she researched a book that his name had been misspelled “Heygi.”
Richard Johnston,a high school teacher in Salem, Ore., was placed on leave after being accused of violating school policy, but not state law, by carrying a concealed handgun on campus, after several students alerted officials about the weapon, a district spokesman said.
Aldo Ocegueda of Westminster, Colo., said his brother used a jack to help free a 4-year-old boy uninjured from under a minivan after the vehicle hit the boy as he and his family were walking in a crosswalk near a school.
Scott Will, a police captain in Maryland Heights, Mo., said officers stopped an SUV stuffed “top-tobottom” in orange and containing three teenage boys who were traveling with 48 stolen pumpkins that dozens of people later began reclaiming after police posted pictures of the Halloween decorations on social media.