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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shorewood's ghost train isn't what you think it is -- nope, not a real train. The light and sound version of the train travels nightly through the Oak Leaf Trail Bridge over Capitol Drive, at 9:00 and ...

Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus suffered one of the worst train wrecks in history in 1918, with more than 100 ...