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Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (NYSE: FUN) is facing several separate problems at once: a fatal incident on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia on October 12, 2026, precautionary closures of nine similar coasters at six parks, individual brain injury lawsuits over the X2 coaster in California, about $4.9 billion in net debt,…
Prosecutors in Miami-Dade County have charged Michael Isaac Delgado, 17, as an adult in connection with the September 1, 2026 shooting during a planned fight at the Aquabella community in Hialeah, Florida. According to local reports, he was booked into the Metro West Detention Center on Tuesday, October 13, appeared in adult court on Wednesday,…
Custodial death reports filed with the Office of the Texas Attorney General say the deaths of four teenagers in a September 27, 2026 crash on State Highway 31 in Smith County were accidental and caused by law enforcement personnel. The crash followed a high-speed pursuit that ended when a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)…
Equity Residential has agreed to pay $1,000,000 to settle a class action brought by a tenant of Mill Creek Apartments in Milpitas, California. The lawsuit claims the landlord did not follow the city’s Rent Review Ordinance when it sent renewal notices and raised rents. Equity Residential denies any wrongdoing. Eligible tenants do not need to…
On the afternoon of Monday, October 12, 2026, one guest died and several others were injured in an incident involving the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell, Cobb County, Georgia. Cobb County Police confirmed the death and injuries, and detectives from the department’s Major Crimes Unit are investigating. As of October…
Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. is asking a Washington court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit over the May 26, 2026 chemical tank failure at its Longview pulp and paper mill, which killed 11 workers. The company argues that Washington’s workers’ compensation law is the exclusive remedy and shields it from the widow’s civil claim. The…
A Pennsylvania tourist who says she suffered serious injuries after falling on the stairs inside Salem’s historic Witch House is suing the City of Salem. She alleges the city failed to address safety problems with the centuries-old staircase. The lawsuit, reported by Law360 on October 9, 2026, raises a question that matters to visitors and…
This is a developing story. Details below are limited to what officials and news outlets had reported as of October 10, 2026, and will be updated when the Erie Police Department or the Erie County Coroner’s Office releases confirmed information. A shooting and standoff on Friday, October 9, 2026, at a home in the 700…
A South Carolina court-ordered damages judgment arising from the 2011 death of 73-year-old Mildred Watkins at a Hopkins nursing home initially totaled $29,515,245.68. On September 23, 2026, the South Carolina Court of Appeals upheld the judgment in large part but modified the punitive damages on the estate’s survival claim. Based on the figures in the…