ANTIOCH, Ill.—Carnival rides were shut down at an Illinois community festival after a 10-year-old boy was thrown from his seat and seriously injured, authorities said. The boy was riding Moby Dick, which locks people in at the shoulders and then goes up and down as speed increases. The boy was thrown Sunday as the ride…
Pelicans Ride 21 3-pointers to 131–110 Win Over Clippers
LOS ANGELES—Trey Murphy III scored 32 points, Brandon Ingram had 32 points and 13 assists, and the New Orleans Pelicans never trailed in a 131–110 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night. New Orleans tied a franchise record with 21 3-pointers and shot 61.8 percent from behind the arc. Murphy was a major…
Photos: Cheetah Hitches a Ride, Surprising Tourists With a Chance for Close-Up Shots
A cheetah decided to take some rest and hitch a ride across the Serengeti Plain of southeastern Africa, giving tourists a very up-close and personal glimpse of her majestic build. The too-close-for-comfort footage was taken by Denice Alex Massawe, the owner of Top Deck Safari. Massawe spotted the predator mother-and-daughter duo in July 2021 prowling across…
Teen Was Turned Away From Two Rides Due Size Before Fatal Fall: Family
Missouri teen Tyre Sampson was told he couldn’t enter two rides at a Florida amusement park last week before he fell to his death from a free-fall ride, according to family members. Cousin Shay Johnson told Spectrum News that Sampson, 14, tried to ride two attractions at the ICON Park in Orlando earlier this month….
Teen Was Turned Away From Two Rides Due to Size Before Fatal Fall: Family
Missouri teen Tyre Sampson was told he couldn’t enter two rides at a Florida amusement park last week before he fell to his death from a free-fall ride, according to family members. Cousin Shay Johnson told Spectrum News that Sampson, 14, tried to ride two attractions at the ICON Park in Orlando earlier this month….
Shocking Video Shows Carnival Ride Almost Pitch Over—Until Fairgoers Rush to Save the Day
Hair-raising footage shows a carnival ride nearly gone horribly wrong in Traverse City, Michigan, during the 95th Annual National Cherry Festival on July 8. A video recorded the near-disaster as 10 passengers were hoisted high overhead and around again by the festively painted Magic Carpet Ride—but not all was going as planned. As the lift soared,…
Oklahoma Man Walks 17 Miles a Day for Work, Stranger Offers a Ride and Turns His Life Around
An Oklahoma man walking 17 miles to work and back each day to make his family proud has had his life turned around when a kind stranger stopped to offer him a ride. Donte Franklin, 20, lost his mother to hepatitis C when he was just 16 years old and life just got hard for…
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