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A Missouri family has been awarded $310 million in damages after their 14-year-old son was killed riding a freefall amusement park ride in Florida in 2022.

Tyre Sampson was visiting ICON Park in Orlando from suburban St. Louis on March 24, 2022, when he fell to his death from the FreeFall ride, manufactured by Austria-based Funtime-Handels, according to Hilliard Law, the firm representing the boy’s father.

An Orange County jury in Florida reached the verdict after a one-day trial, attorney Bob Hilliard told USA TODAY on Friday.

Hilliard Law wrote that the verdict against Funtime-Handels is a “landmark.”

“The lawsuit highlighted glaring safety oversights, including the absence of seat belts − a safety enhancement that would have cost just $22 per seat or $660 in total for all seats,” the law firm wrote in a news release.

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A day after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on a New York City sidewalk, police still have not found the shooter but they did release photos Thursday of a person wanted for questioning.

The two surveillance pictures show a "person of interest'' without a face mask wearing a hooded jacket similar to one worn by the masked person captured on photos and videos from Wednesday morning's shooting outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

"This does not appear to be a random act of violence," the New York Police Department wrote in a statement accompanying the photos made public Thursday. "All indications are that it was a (premeditated), targeted attack."

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A US federal judge on Thursday rejected plane giant Boeing’s agreement to plead guilty to fraud after two fatal crashes of its 737 Max passenger jets, faulting a diversity and inclusion provision in the deal regarding the selection of an independent monitor to audit the company’s compliance practices.

Boeing and the US justice department now have 30 days to update the court on how they plan to proceed in the case, Judge Reed C O’Connor of the northern district of Texas ordered.

Spokespeople for Boeing and the DoJ did not respond immediately to requests for comment.

Relatives of the victims of the two 737 Max crashes, which occurred in 2018 and 2019 and killed 346 people, have called the agreement a “sweetheart” deal that failed to adequately hold Boeing accountable for the deaths of their loved ones.

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Two students were injured in a school shooting in northern California, officials said on Wednesday afternoon, and the suspected shooter is dead. The injured students are five and six years old, according to KCRA, Sacramento’s NBC affiliate station. The students are being treated for the injuries, Butte county sheriff, Kory Honea told reporters on Wednesday.

The shooting took place at the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in Oroville, a city of 20,000 people in the state’s far north. Honea told media that around 1pm his office began receiving calls from the school about an individual on campus firing shots at students. Deputies responded immediately, Honea said, and found a man on scene dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot.

The two injured students were taken to the hospital – one was transported via helicopter. The sheriff said officials have made a “potential identification” of the shooter, and that it did not immediately appear that he was connected to the school, which has been open since 1965 and serves about 35 students.

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