These stories could come only from circus performers, and in particular one famous circus, the one immortalised as “The Greatest Show on Earth”: the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is drawing to a close this weekend after 146 years of performances and travel that at times have been marred by tragedy and celebrated in film ...

Sons of poor immigrants in the Midwest, the Ringling Brothers expanded within a decade from a small regional circus to a large traveling circus across the country, and ultimately bought Barnum and ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — What better way to kick off a weekend than with a trip to the circus? On a Friday edition of FOX45 Morning News' Hometown Hotspot, meteorologist Justin Chambers took the ...

“The elephants I grew to know and love at the circus were beaten daily with sharp bull hooks and chained like prisoners for hours on end.” —Tom Rider, former Ringling Bros. employee After nearly nine ...

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 ...

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 ...