A memorial service for the five people killed in the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck of 1893 will be held next week. The service marking the 130th anniversary of the derailment will be held at 10 ...

The end of an era could be on track to pass through Cumberland County on Monday. The last train of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be in transit from shows in Hampton, Virginia, to ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus is bringing their “Built to Amaze” show to Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena Friday through Monday. Taylor Albin, Boss Clown, spoke to the Appeal-Democrat about ...

For more than 100 years, the remains of 56 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus lay at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park. Some were known only by nickname, such as Baldy and ...

The saga of the former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars stashed in the North Carolina woods has come to an end. The last of the train cars have been sold, five years after the N.C.

SPRING HOPE — A set of decommissioned Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars damaged in a Thursday fire in Nash County were being stored on a spur line and awaiting sale at auction. A ...

The state has found buyers for two former circus train cars that survived a fire that destroyed four others in March. The two cars were sold through the state’s surplus property website to companies ...

Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...

Investigators are still trying to determine what caused a fire that destroyed four former circus train cars in Nash County last month, but the discovery of two gas cans nearby suggests it may have ...

I get so many e-mails every day that it's nearly impossible to track everything down, like a recent message about clown auditions for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Every once in a ...