ATLANTA (AP) — A growing number of amusement parks have shut down roller coasters as police and state regulators investigate what caused a man to fall out of his seat and plummet to his death at a Georgia park. Sea World Orlando in Florida and La Ronde theme park in Montreal, Canada confirmed on...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans jail worker received a 2. 5-year prison sentence Thursday for enabling 10 inmates to escape through a hole behind a toilet after he turned off its water. Custodian Sterling Williams, 34, pleaded guilty to one count of malfeasance in office for clearing the way of...

NEW YORK (AP) — U. S. stock indexes muscled higher Thursday, led by companies delivering bigger profits. They pulled closer to their records even as stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry kept swinging on worries about how much longer their boom will last. The S&P 500 rose 0. 3% after an...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Student-led demonstrators clashed Thursday with Albanian police in the capital Tirana for a third day running, joining a broader anti-government movement launched in opposition to a major development project linked to U. S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared at a...

NEW YORK (AP) — An American businessman whose firm invested in several European soccer clubs that struggled under its ownership pleaded guilty to fraud charges Thursday in New York and agreed to pay back $500 million in losses caused by the scheme. Josh Wander, 45, a co-founder of Miami-based an...