Seattle Police tweeted that negotiators were still trying to talk the man out of the tree at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Firefighters took down their ladder truck shortly after 6:30 p.m., ...

The man had repeatedly rebuffed police negotiators who tried to convince him to come down out of the famous tree, which was planted in its current location in 1973, when it stood only 35 feet tall.

The man climbed into the tree from his roof after his mother allegedly told police he threatened her. U.S. ... But a deputy trained in crisis negotiations was able to talk him into coming down.

With traffic diverted from the area, the man in the tree has become the talk of the town. "It is quite a spectacle, honestly," police spokesman Patrick Michaud told The Seattle Times.

A Queens man who parked himself in the branches of a tree for two days in a bid to evade cops finally left his leafy perch thanks to a local activist who preaches peace.. An apparently emotionally ...

BROOKVILLE, Queens (WABC) -- A man is refusing to come down from a tree after climbing up from the roof of a home in Queens. It all began Wednesday afternoon on the roof of the 145th Street home ...