WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Frightening moments for a woman in the District — she was riding in an elevator last week that started free-falling. She’s demanding answers about the safety of the ...

Betty Lou Oliver, who just turned 20, had no idea her final day of work would mark the day she earned a Guinness World Record for surviving the longest elevator free fall July 28 marks the 80th ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (NEWS 12/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A woman fell down a 16-foot elevator shaft. It happened on Monday at an apartment complex in Jersey City, New Jersey. The woman's cries for help ...

An $8 million settlement has been reached for a 53-year-old man who fell into an elevator shaft at a loading dock freight when the doors opened with no elevator present, causing him to fall 8 feet ...

The parents of a 2-year-old boy were horrified when they saw their child reportedly fall 6 feet down a residential building’s elevator shaft.

MYRTLE BEACH — An Horry County man who survived a three-story fall through an open elevator shaft in 2020 filed a lawsuit this month against the homebuilding company that was in charge of the property ...

Decades later, Betty Lou Oliver still holds the record for surviving a 1,000-foot fall in the Empire State Building: "They thought she had died," her daughter tells PEOPLE Bettmann Archive/Getty Betty ...