Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey is America’s longest-running circus company. It began performances in the early 1890s. More than a century later, the company maintains many of the traditions of ...

In 1965 the Great Circus Parade returned to Milwaukee for the third time, but it was the first time the antique wagons, ...

On the morning of May 30, 1893, a circus train convoy chock full of lions, elephants, and camels fatefully rounded a bend of a rural Pennsylvania mountain. The conductor was going 40 miles an hour, ...

Times: 7:30 p.m. today, Thursday, Fri day and Monday. Curtain times Satur day and Sunday are 11:30 a.m., 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Where: The Q, downtown Cleveland ...

Prior to commencing the column at hand, we're trying something new, and beginning, rather than concluding the column with, "Have a nice week, and God bless America." There, now try leaving that one on ...

In 1918, outside Hammond, Indiana, a train accident took the lives of 86 circus performers. Many of the dead were never identified. Playwright Jay Torrence memorialized the horrific event with his ...

When the circus came to town in Great Falls a century ago, people paid attention. There were no radio broadcasts yet to distract them. When the circus arrived in the Electric City 60 years ago, before ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jared Daughenbaugh gets help from his son, Brodie, 3, laying the wreath at the 130 year anniversary of the Walter L. Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday ...