A traveling circus set to perform in Astoria this week is drawing protests from animal rights activists, who plan to gather ...

The golden age of the circus is long past, and gone are the days when bombastic advertisements would draw thousands of clamoring fans eager to see the exotic spectacles they promised. While that may ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A circus violated an animal welfare law by allowing three elephants to briefly get loose in Missouri and watering them too close to a Pennsylvania show’s public area where a child ...

"Water for Elephants" musical tells story of traveling Depression-era circus, which includes Walter the clown.

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An animal trainer was trampled to death by his own elephant in front of a horrified circus crowd - before the creature escaped and rampaged through city streets. Tyke, a 20-year-old African bush ...

OAKLAND (BCN)—Two days before the Ringling Brothers Circus begins a series of shows in Oakland, two City Council members and animal rights activists said today that they’re glad the circus has decided ...

This weekend's last show on earth for "The Greatest Show on Earth" has been in the making for 22 years, since a series of I-Team reports questioned whether elephants at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & ...

POLK CITY, Fla. -- The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press exclusively that growing public ...

Scrape away the circus elements of the stage musical “Water for Elephants” — an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sara Gruen — and you’re left with a pretty ordinary show. Running through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wanting to run away with the circus was never a joke for Tyler West. This full-time clown said he's known that's what he wanted to ...