The Jordan World Circus returns to the Butte Civic Center without elephants two years after Viola the elephant escaped and ...

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

PETA alleges the elephant has paralysis "likely due to being forced to stand on her head and put several tons of weight on her trunk for decades." ...

If I told you I spent an evening last week watching a surrealist dramedy about performers in a circus run by a needy, ...

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 ...

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 & ...

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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending its elephant acts a year and a half early, and will retire all of its touring elephants in May. The move comes amid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movement for the Broadway musical “Water for Elephants” needed more than a choreographer. It needed a circus. That’s why the ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — What’s better than a bull in a China shop? Three cows in a parking lot — elephant cows, that is. The trunked trio — all circus stars in St. Louis, Missouri — found a way out of their ...

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 ...