ORLANDO, Fla. -- A month after a 14-year-old plummeted to his death from a Florida amusement park ride, his family is suing a bevy of defendants, saying a series of mistakes put visitors in danger and ...

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. -- Dollywood is temporarily closing its drop tower attraction after a boy fell to his death from a similar type of ride by the same manufacturer at a park in Orlando, a spokesman ...

Operations guidelines for Orlando FreeFall, the drop tower ride at ICON Park where a 14-year-old boy died last week, indicates that the boy exceeded the ride’s weight restrictions. According to ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Department of Agriculture has hired forensic engineering and analysis firm Quest Engineering to aid in its investigation of a Missouri teen’s death on a drop tower ...

The teen who died after plummeting from a 430-foot-tall drop-tower in Orlando slipped from his seat about midway down, a law enforcement report released Tuesday revealed. Tyre Sampson died on March 24 ...

The Florida amusement park where a teen fell to his death last week is calling for the owner of the ride, SlingShot Group, to suspend operations "effective immediately" of both the drop tower ride and ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A towering amusement ride in central Florida’s tourism district where a Missouri teen fell to his death will be taken down because of the accident, the owner said Thursday. Tyre ...

The Austrian company that built the Orlando Free Fall ride, where a 14-year-old boy fell to his death, has sold a similar drop tower to a Texas theme park. It will be installed at COTALAND, at Circuit ...