PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Investigators on Monday were looking at a broken clamp as they tried to figure out what caused eight circus acrobats to plummet to the ground during an aerial hair-hanging stunt, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Eight acrobats severely injured when the rigging suspending them by their hair plummeted to the floor during a circus performance in Rhode Island in 2014 have reached a $52.5 ...

Acrobat Samantha Pitard performs a heel hang from the lyra (aerial hoop) during the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Legends pre-show (right). She was a part of the stunt that collapsed mid-show on ...

ANSAN, South Korea (AP) — No more elephant and monkey acts. No more death-defying motorbike stunts. No more singing or acting on stage. Several hundred spectators still clapped constantly when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A throwback five-ring circus complete with human cannonball, acrobats, aerial performers and the "Wheel of Death" is headed to ...

Everybody knows about the Ringling Museum’s extensive collection of colorful circus memorabilia. But another privately owned circus museum, the Circus Hall of Fame, also operated from 1956 until 1980 ...

Before Banana Ball, Wichita had its own baseball circus: real firefighters, circus clowns and a sold-out crowd in 1925.

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