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 ...

NOW TO A WESH TWO NEWS INVESTIGATES EXCLUSIVE. FOUR YEARS AFTER A TEEN FELL TO HIS DEATH FROM THE FREE FALL RIDE HERE IN ORLANDO, WE’VE LEARNED THE COMPANY THAT BUILT THE RIDE HAS DELIVERED ANOTHER ...

A former maintenance technician alleges he raised safety concerns about the Orlando FreeFall ride weeks before 14-year-old Tyre Sampson’s deadly fall in March 2022. The lawsuit claims he was later ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A KXAN investigation found a foreign ride maker — found negligent in the 2022 death of a teen in Florida — is producing a new drop ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — The parents of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson, who fell to his death from a 430-foot drop-tower ride in central Florida’s tourist district, have filed a lawsuit against the ride’s ...

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 ...

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 family was lowered back to the ground after around 20 minutes, according to a local media outlet Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

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 ...