Diver breaks record, sound barrier with jump from 24 miles up

ROSWELL, N.M. — In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, a daredevil skydiver shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever — a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert.

By: Juan Carlos Llorca, Associated Press, The Jamestown Sun