ST. PAUL, Minn. --The expression of "running away with the circus" is known to many, but for one St. Paul woman, it was a literal lifeline to escape a life of domestic abuse. She's now on a mission to ...

Valentine’s Day is approaching, and love is in the air across Albuquerque, except for the N.M. State Fairgrounds where the Shrine Circus will once again ship in exotic animals, compelling them to ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Why are wild animals still being used in circuses? The Ringling Brothers Circus no longer includes ...

The animal rights activist group, People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), is calling Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus "the cruelest show on earth" after a purported undercover ...

After more than eight years of legal skirmishing, a trial is scheduled to open Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by animal welfare groups alleging Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus routinely abuses ...

When Cayuga County officials learned from an animal protection organization that the Carson & Barnes Circus allegedly abuses their elephants, officials quickly planned a local investigation held at ...

John Richards, media spokesman for Irem Shrine Circus, talks with reporters Friday evening at the 109th Armory in Wilkes-Barre about the death of an animal groomer by an elephant. BILL TARUTIS/FOR THE ...

Human circus performers go on willingly, but elephants have to be cruelly beaten and electrically prodded to go out and perform totally unnatural acts for a few minutes of entertainment. Animal abuse ...

Fariss, of Roanoke, is a piano teacher and a retired registered nurse. I read the long article by Lerone Graham, "Even on a snowy day, the show must go on" (Jan. 31), elaborating on the trouble some ...