Officials organizing the 1985 Shrine circus said Friday that ticket and advertising sales are 60 percent below last year’s because of adverse publicity stemming from a possible ticket fraud at the ...

John Ringling North, 81, who headed the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for 30 years until its sale by the Ringling family in 1967, died of a stroke Tuesday in his hotel suite in Brussels ...

Kids love the circus. And kids will benefit from the circus that comes to town Friday through next Sunday. Proceeds from the Bahia Shrine Circus will benefit Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children.

When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced earlier this year that it would be folding up its tent for good after its performance Sunday night (May 21) in Uniondale, N.Y., it drew ...

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has called for a boycott of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus because four animals — billed as “Living Unicorns” — appear to be ...

Times may change, but some things stay the same and one of those is the old-fashioned fun of a day out at the circus. That was certainly the case in these photos from our archive taken in Calcot in ...

The big top will stay, and so will the “Circus Spectacular” show beneath it. But many of the vintage objects and exhibits that have helped to give Circus World its circus identity over the past 11 ...

Dreams of running away to join the circus have become reality for students at Triton College in suburban River Grove — but they don`t have to run very far. The Triton Trouper Circus, now celebrating ...