SANDUSKY, Ohio—A Michigan woman struck in the head by a metal bracket that fell off a roller coaster at an Ohio amusement park has sued the park and its parent company, alleging their negligence caused the accident that left her with traumatic brain injuries. The August 2021 accident occurred as the then-44-year-old woman was waiting…

NEW YORK—Police on Tuesday were hunting for a gunman who opened fire in a crowded park, wounding four people including two young children, authorities said. Two masked men dressed all in black rode a scooter to St. James Park in the Fordham Manor section of the Bronx shortly before 6 p.m., Chief of Patrol John…

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska—A Denali National Park and Preserve employee died when he was caught in an avalanche while skiing in the backcountry, not far from the park’s entrance, officials said Friday. Eric Walter, who provided radio-based safety support and dispatch services for National Park Service operations across Alaska, died in the Thursday…

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—An unidentified suspect fired a gun into a crowd of hundreds in a Kentucky park, leaving two people dead and four wounded Saturday night, police said. Police were called around 9 p.m. to Chickasaw Park in Louisville, authorities said. “Hundreds of people were in the park at the time of the shooting, when someone…

A seasoned gem hunter has unearthed a 3.29-carat diamond at an Arkansas state park, the stone being the largest found at the site since September 2021. David Anderson of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, a regular visitor of his hometown’s Crater of Diamonds State Park, was wet-sifting soil at the park on March 4 when he noticed something…

For thousands of years, men have painted no less than 35,000 rock paintings on the walls of the caves in the Drakensberg. Nowhere else in the world can one find such a high number of rock artworks. What do these works tell us? …

SALT LAKE CITY—The United States will pay family members of a Ugandan human rights activist killed in an accident at Arches National Park more than $10 million in damages, a federal judge ruled Monday. Though the amount was substantially less than pursued, attorneys representing the family of Esther Nakajjigo celebrated the judgement, saying it was…

MONTEREY PARK, Calif.—The 72-year-old gunman who sprayed bullets into a Southern California ballroom dance hall, killing 11 people, had no known connection with the victims and investigators were still trying to determine a motive for the massacre, the Los Angeles County sheriff said. Before the shooting Saturday night, Huu Can Tran parked a motorcycle just…

After a run-in with park visitors, a female black bear in Tennessee was relocated to a place where she would, hopefully, cause less trouble. But, the bear then trekked over 1,000 miles to return to her favorite park once again. The tenacious female even crossed four states during her 6-month journey. Park workers were astonished…

DENVER—A Colorado man has been sentenced to more than 23 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to shooting a ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park last year. The ranger was wearing a bulletproof vest and wasn’t seriously injured. Daron Ellis, 29, of Aurora was sentenced Monday in federal court in Denver after pleading guilty…