For months now, you've been growing out your hair. One day, it will be long enough that you can become an aerialist who hangs by her locks, looking like a midair ballet artist. And if that doesn' t ...

It stands on a large plot south and east of the airport here in Wahpeton, N.D., dwarfing headstones of what was once called the Bohemian Cemetery. It resembles a broken pole, wound with a rope and ...

A couple years ago, radio host Chris Nolte from our Northwest Indiana Lakeshore Public Media NPR, asked me to be a guest on his lunchtime broadcast of his show “Regionally Speaking” on 89.1 FM to talk ...

WILKES-BARRE TWP. – The show must go on. Just weeks after Carol, a 40-year-old Asian elephant, was shot in a drive-by in Tupelo, Miss., the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is bringing its ...

Seventy years ago, on a sunny Thursday afternoon in 1944, Hartford was struck by a tragedy that still captivates us. Hartford’s residents were hard at work, pulling double shifts at the area factories ...

Sometimes the living have to guess where the departed wanted to be buried. Under a 1943 headline, “Final curtain finds Curly in the big time,” the Tribune reported the death of sword-swallower Curly ...

WEBVTT AMY: THE FIRST TIME WE ARE HEARING FROM THE COMPANY BEHIND THE CIRCUS EVENT IN LANCASTER WHERE A TENT COLLAPSE KILLED A FATHER AND DAUGHTER. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M AMY COVENO. IN A STATEMENT, ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 people died, and hundreds were injured Jordan Friedman | History Correspondent ...

The circus lives and breathes by the mantra “the show must go on.” But how do performers bounce back after tragedy? Some Tampa Bay area performers know the difficulty first-hand. Feb. 8, 2017 changed ...