Fifty-five years ago, Union writer Welton Jones used his journalistic skills to help to solve a mystery involving circus clowns and the missing grave of a Russian ballerina. Jones, the former arts ...

The final curtain fell late Sunday on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, known widely as "the Greatest Show on Earth." The circus, which traces its lineage back to showman P.T. Barnum’s ...

The Circus World Museum is rolling out yet another piece of history in preparation for next week's Great Circus Parade and Festival. For the first time since 1955, the historic No. 81 Christy Bros.

The "Greatest Show on Earth" is getting its curtain call. Feld Entertainment, owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus said in a statement that the show will end is 146-year run in May.

A Bengal tiger jumped through a hoop at the Shrine Circus in Omaha on April 12, 2002. The Shrine Circus jinx continued for wild animal trainer Guy Gossing, who had a chunk bitten out of the end of his ...