The State fire marshal blames operator error for an accident that injured a four year old boy last week at the Louisiana State Fair. State Fire Marshal Butch Browning held a news conference in Shreveport Monday to release details of …
A young boy was critically injured Wednesday at the Louisiana State Fair after he wound up trapped under a ride in the fair’s children’s section. The accident happened shortly before noon at a ride where cars go in a circle. …
Officials say the Astro Orbiter ride at the Magic Kingdom has been shut down because of a small fire. The fire started Sunday morning shortly after the park opened. Officials say no one was injured and there was no word …
The Dollywood theme park in East Tennessee has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against a German company over a ride that park officials claim has malfunctioned. The suit, in Sevier County Circuit Court, claims the Timber Tower ride has not worked …
Authorities say five people were injured when a ride partially collapsed at a New Jersey amusement park where a girl fell to her death from a Ferris wheel in June. Wildwood police say the center mast snapped on the sea …
Part of a carnival ride that spins people around at high speed broke apart Tuesday, hurling three people to their death and leaving a teenage girl severely injured, a police official said. The accident happened in the early hours in …
North Carolina inspectors responsible for checking rides at Carowinds kept records on every problem they discovered during their annual inspections at the amusement park that straddles both Carolinas near Charlotte, N.C. Their counterparts in South Carolina simply marked the rides …
A southern New Jersey amusement park Ferris wheel from which an 11-year-old girl fell to her death this month is back in service with new safety precautions. The attraction at Morey’s Piers in Wildwood reopened early Saturday afternoon. Morey’s has …
Authorities say two teenagers thrown from a spinning carnival ride on a high school campus are in the hospital in stable condition. The state Fire Marshal’s office said Sunday that the brother and sister had been on a ride called …