The announcement that America’s best known and longest running circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, will close in May has been greeted with glee by animal rights activists, who have been trying ...

The Associated Press – Jenny Wallenda, matriarch of the internally famous family of high-flying circus performers, has died. She was 87. Wallenda's nephew, Rick Wallenda, said his aunt died late ...

Sarasota, Florida-When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed its final show last month after nearly 150 years many thought the circus was gone forever. Artists are continuing the ...

Jun. 30—PERU — Thomas Patrick Kelly, the last living son of the nation's most famous hobo clown who followed his father into a career under the big top, died Sunday at Hickory Creek at Peru. He was 87 ...

Jul. 23—PERU — Pat Kelly traveled the country performing in circuses as a sad, downtrodden clown for most his life, just like his father, Emmett Kelly, the iconic depression-era hobo clown named Weary ...

London has hundreds of landmarks including Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, the London Eye and many more. But, among the landmarks with seemingly obvious reasons for their fame, some ...

Jenny Wallenda, 87, the matriarch of the famous family of high-flying circus performers, died late Saturday at her home in Sarasota, Florida, according to family members. Wallenda's nephew, Rick ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --History is being made over the next few days in Philadelphia. Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey will be here through the weekend for the final time after years of ...