A father last seen on Christmas day in Texas has been found alive in California. Perry McCauley Jr. was visiting his three children in Southlake, Texas before heading back to Austin, where he lives.

Their father is a tree surgeon, too, and this year climbed 15 feet up to cut down the top of a tree, which was still 20 feet of pine, to use at a community square.

A Morris County man charged with murdering his father on Christmas Eve used both an axe and battery-operated saw in the killing, according to police records. Kyle Meyer, 33, was captured in ...