Tag: DEATH

Girl, 6, Dies on Mine Drop Ride at Colorado Amusement Park

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.—An investigation is underway after a 6-year-old girl on vacation with her family died at an amusement park in the western Colorado town of Glenwood Springs. Few details have been released, but Suzanne Emery with the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park says “an incident” occurred Sunday evening on the Haunted Mine Drop ride that…


Chinese Families Silenced After Members Died After Vaccination

Chinese authorities have pressured and silenced citizens whose families died after getting vaccinated against COVID-19, according to sources inside China. At least two who received Chinese-made vaccines died after taking the shots—one in just two days—in Chongqing city, Sichuan Province, over the past two months. Authorities have since monitored their close contacts and accused one…


Chinese Silenced After Family Die Following Vaccination

Chinese authorities have pressured and silenced citizens whose families died after getting vaccinated against COVID-19, according to family members inside China. At least two who received Chinese-made vaccines died after taking the shots—one in just two days—in Chongqing city, Sichuan Province, over the past two months. Authorities have since monitored their close contacts and accused…


$750,000 Bond Set for Man Charged in Grandson’s Beating Death

MILWAUKEE—Bond was set at $750,000 cash Thursday for a Milwaukee man accused of fatally bludgeoning his 12-year-old grandson whom he accused of stealing his money. A criminal complaint alleges that Andrez Martina, 54, used a sledgehammer, mallet, and coat rack to beat Andre Smith II for up to 90 minutes on Sunday before the boy…


Brain Injury Association Calls for Ban After Death of Mexican Teenager

British-based Brain injury association Headway has again called for a ban on boxing after the death of Mexican teenager Jeanette Zacarias Zapata following a bout in Canada last weekend. The 18-year-old welterweight was knocked down in the fourth round against Marie Pier Houle at the GVM Gala International in Montreal on Saturday and appeared to…


Death Toll Tops 40 After Ida’s Remnants Blindside Northeast

NEW YORK—A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage, and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than 40 people in their homes and cars. In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding…


At Least 45 Dead After Ida’s Remnants Blindside Northeast

NEW YORK—A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage, and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than 40 people in their homes and cars. In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding…


At Least 14 Dead After Ida’s Remnants Hit Northeast

NEW YORK—The remnants of Hurricane Ida inundated large swaths of the northeastern U.S. with historic and unanticipated fury Wednesday night, killing at least 14 people in flooding in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as basement apartments suddenly filled with water, rivers, and creeks swelled to record levels and roadways turned into car-swallowing canals. Eight…


Jamaican Reggae Legend ‘Lee Scratch’ Perry Dies at 85

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Jamaican singer and record producer “Lee Scratch” Perry, considered one of reggae’s founding fathers, died on Sunday. He was 85. Perry, whose real name is Rainford Hugh Perry, died at a hospital in Montego Bay, Jamaica, according to a statement issued by Prime Minister Andrew Holness. He noted that Perry was a…


South Dakota AG Gets Fines, No Jail Time in Pedestrian Death

FORT PIERRE, S.D.—South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg pleaded no contest Thursday to a pair of misdemeanor traffic charges over a crash last year that killed a pedestrian, avoiding jail time despite bitter complaints from the victim’s family that he was being too lightly punished for actions they called “inexcusable.” Circuit Judge John Brown had…