Girl killed in Ferris wheel fall at NJ boardwalk

AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Dale Gerhard

The Ferris wheel is seen at Morey's Mariner's Landing Pier on the Boardwalk Friday, June 3, 2011 in Wildwood, N.J.

WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — An 11-year-old girl on a school trip to a Jersey shore amusement park died Friday when she fell 100 feet from a moving Ferris wheel.

Police Capt. Robert Regalbuto said Abiah Jones of Pleasantville was with her classmates from Pleasant Tech Academy when she fell from the ride at 12:30 p.m.

She was driven to a nearby hospit...