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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — On Friday, two days before Father’s Day, Juneteenth and his birthday, Yarnell Sampson visited the Orlando Free Fall ride in ICON Park. “I came up here to get my peace,” he said. But he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Orange County jury awarded a $310 million verdict Thursday to the family of a 14-year-old boy who fell to his death from an ...

“We now are going to take this judgment, and we're going to enforce it in Austria,” said attorney Michael Haggard. An Orlando jury awarded Tyre Sampson’s parents a $310 million verdict against Funtime ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Sensors on a Florida amusement park ride had been adjusted manually to double the size of the opening for restraints on two seats, resulting in a 14-year-old boy not being ...

An Orlando amusement park technician flagged that operators of the FreeFall ride were manually overriding sensors to allow riders that didn’t meet the height and weight requirements, leading to a teen ...

The Orlando Free Fall ride at Florida’s ICON Park will be torn down, officials announced Thursday. Tyre Sampson, 14, died in March after falling from the ride about halfway down the 400-foot drop. “We ...