ST. PAUL, Minn. --The expression of "running away with the circus" is known to many, but for one St. Paul woman, it was a literal lifeline to escape a life of domestic abuse. She's now on a mission to ...

After more than eight years of legal skirmishing, a trial is scheduled to open Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by animal welfare groups alleging Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus routinely abuses ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Hanneford Circus is coming to town, and they'll be bringing exotic animals from Africa and ...

A circus scheduled to perform in Frederick this week has agreed to pay $15,000 to resolve allegations that it mistreated its elephants. The Cole Brothers Circus of the Stars, set to perform at the ...

requiring that animals have enough room to stand up and turn around when confined, but even these basic regulations are often ignored. Shrine circuses escape the scrutiny of governing bodies like the ...

A circus scheduled to perform in Leonardtown this week has agreed to pay $15,000 to resolve allegations that it mistreated its elephants. The Cole Brothers Circus of the Stars is coming to the St.

Circus enables ring of cruelty On Monday, adults plan to gather at the Irem Shrine Circus – for the sheer entertainment of watching acrobats fired out of cannons and, of course, to see their ...

Why are wild animals still being used in circuses? The Ringling Brothers Circus no longer includes animals. This should be the case with every circus. More people understand that wild animals used in ...

Fariss, of Roanoke, is a piano teacher and a retired registered nurse. I read the long article by Lerone Graham, "Even on a snowy day, the show must go on" (Jan. 31), elaborating on the trouble some ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - It’s easy to understand why some people, usually children, suffer from coulrophobia — fear of clowns. Strangers in baggy pants and wildly colored makeup spritzing seltzer could ...

In the new one-man show, “Humor Abuse,” which opened Saturday at the Mark Taper Forum, actor Lorenzo Pisoni plays a clown reminiscing about a life of pratfalls, juggling, and the divorce of his ...

AP - After more than eight years of legal skirmishing, a trial is scheduled to open Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by animal welfare groups alleging that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ...