A sign on the front door of the Fremont Lanes bowling alley in Florence, Colorado says “closed until further notice.” It went up Sunday afternoon when the owner was killed in a tragic accident.

Three months after starting work as a pin-setter at Germania and the nearby Bexar society, Sammy Reel, 13, said: “It might be fun to be on a team. I’ve thought about it.” ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (CN) – A bowling alley’s pin-setting machine strangled a worker to death by snaring his shirt, his parents claim in a $1 million lawsuit. Vidal Garcia was strangled at work on March ...

FLORENCE, Colo. (KXRM) – A Colorado bowling alley owner died after getting caught in a pin setting machine Sunday afternoon, according to police. Police say they got a call around 1:20 p.m ...

A Colorado bowling alley owner died after getting caught in a pin setting machine Sunday afternoon, according to police. Police say they got a call around 1:20 p.m. about a man stuck in a machine ...

In the beginning, all the lanes were manually loaded by a ‘pin setter’ who was paid minimum wage. At that time (in the early 1950s), minimum wage was about 75 cents an hour.

But these days the word brings many positive vibes, with bowling centers around the region now "open" for business once again. Historic Towne-n-Country lanes is one of those.

My older brother, David, worked there as a pin setter as a teenager. Although I was only 5, I recall the great fun bowlers had trying to give the pin boys a hard time, rolling balls prior to the ...

The bowling alley's owner, 47-year-old Dwight Lee Selders, told investigators that pin setter had mechanical issues that he'd tried to repair the night before the fire, the affidavit says.