Liberty Island may have lost all high voltage equipment." The statue had just reopened its interior Sunday after a year-long, $30 million renovation. Sunday was the statue's 126th birthday.

New York's Statue of Liberty is well known as a symbol of refuge for immigrants, but the statue's original design stood for something else.

The Statue of Liberty was the work of French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. For more than a century, people have wondered about the model Bartholdi used for Lady Liberty. Historical ...