Officers apprehended a man who was charged with impersonating a state police in order to get a free train ride.

Saying that he was a State Police sergeant and that he needed to ride the train for official business, 32-year old Paul Rumery requested to ride the train for free, from Saco to Boston.

Powerful winds blew off a building scaffold, causing a worker to plunge to his death from 13 floors. The fatality was identified as Jose Palacios, a 43-year-old Mexican migrant worker who was installing stucco at the top floor of a building under construction along Clinton Avenue.

A second worker was also blown off, but he sustained only minor injuries after he fell on a landing one floor below, while a third crew held on to a roof bulkhead.

ree press advocates in China are sounding the alarms after a Chinese man was beaten to death by officials after trying to film a confrontation between city officials and residents of Wanba village in Tianmen over the dumping of waste near their village.

According to the report, 24 municipal inspectors have been detained so far for their involvement in the incident, in which 41-year-old construction company executive Wei Wenhua was beaten to death for trying to record a scuffle between city officials and village residents on his cell phone. The villagers were attempting to stop trucks from unloading waste near their homes when the fight broke out.

Volunteer workers at the Daley Plaza bolted down a Baby Jesus in the store's Nativity Scene, with the hopes of keeping the display's main object from being stolen.

The infant was secured to its spot with cable wrapped around its waist, and its body was then bolted to the floor of the manger.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced that Big Apple locals and tourists will enjoy the first-ever "green" Rockefeller Center Christmas tree this year.

The 84-foot tall Norway spruce will be officially lit during a ceremony on Nov. 28 with energy-efficient LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, instead of the usual incandescent bulbs.