Man dressed as tree blocks traffic

PORTLAND, Maine -- A man arrested for blocking traffic while dressed as an evergreen tree said the public display was intended to be performance art. Asher Woodworth, 30, said his embodiment of a tree inching across a busy downtown Portland intersection was designed to reflect a contrast in the "energies of economy and efficiency and the energies of slowness and magic." He was arrested Monday for obstructing traffic when he failed to heed a warning by police officers...