On a quiet May morning in Marietta 110 years ago, the first of five trains made their way from Zanesville to Marietta as the ...

A Southington woman has been brightening the lives of children in hospitals for nearly 40 years as Valentine the Clown. Diana ...

“You have your own clowns. Everybody loves you. A circus is a very big family ... Vargas was born between two Ringling Bros. shows in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1990. His father managed to ...

A circus without elephants might be more humane, but apparently it's far less enticing. The owners of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus said they will permanently end their 146-year-old ...

The Ringling Bros. traveling circus is performing for the last time ... next generation of clowns, performers?' And I'm like: 'Absolutely not! He's going to be a dentist, a lawyer, a professional ...

The grotesque and glittering world of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is his “Never-Never Land.” His fellow clowns are the other lost boys. And the only pirates they fear are ...

I was quite taken with Mary Ann Lewis’ suggestion that the circus clowns laid off by the closure of Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey Circus could take the places of the clowns we already have ...

To them, it might have seemed effortless. But these highly trained performers for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus told the children watching on Wednesday such feats of aerial grace ...