The circus will give its final performance in May. — -- The owners of the famed Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus today pushed back against the idea that animal rights protests influenced ...

Members of PETA were in town Tuesday to protest performances of the Sharon Shrine Circus/The Jordan World Circus at the Anderson County Youth Livestock Pavilion, 750 N. U.S. Hwy 287. The Jordan World ...

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 ...

Some visitors get a nostalgia fix from the show - but organisations like PETA have spoken out against the use of animals in any form.

There was some BIG news this week -- literally -- as a circus elephant escaped from her pen and roamed the streets of a Montana city. The escape has garnered mixed reactions. While some said it was ...

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced Wednesday its big top circus will resume touring five years after it was retired, and animals will no longer be part of the performance.

The big top circus tent went up last Sunday morning as the Culpepper & Merriweather circus came to New Whiteland for two shows. I saw two types of performers – consenting human performers and ...

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski lies on stage while an elephant climbs over him during a Fab. 11 performance of Rony Roller Circus in Rome. (Credit: Screen capture.) Listen ROME – As the saying goes, “no ...

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed a bill making Washington the twelfth state in the country to restrict the use of animals in traveling circuses, exhibits and other shows. Washington State ...

As the story goes, Grigori Rasputin’s assassins poisoned the “Mad Monk,” shot him at close range, beat him and threw him into an icy river. Supposedly, his hand reached out from the depths to grasp a ...