EVANSVILLE — An Evansville Animal Care & Control inspection Wednesday offered one answer, at least, to persistent questions and controversy about the use of animals at the Hadi Shrine Circus. Two ...

As the audience are guided to their seats inside the big top, all the classic elements of the circus are there — except one. The live animals. Germany's Roncalli ...

Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian import and America’s most profitable circus, is animal-free but full of animalized human performers. Courtesy: Cirque du Soleil In 1917, the publication of a posthumous ...

(Tribune News Service) — Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus recently kicked off a new nationwide tour following a six-year hiatus. But for the first time in the show’s century-and-a-half ...

Apr. 4—KINGSTON — Silvie Pomicter, President of Voice of the Animals, Tuesday said that animals forced to perform in circuses aren't trained to do confusing, uncomfortable, and even frightening tricks ...

A truck hauling zebras and camels for a series of weekend circus performances caught fire early Saturday on a northeastern Indiana highway, prompting a police rescue of the animals, which roamed along ...

A semi-truck hauling circus animals erupted in flames on an Indiana highway early Saturday morning — setting free camels, zebras and a horse to run wild along the pavement. Troopers scrambled to catch ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- An Indiana State Police trooper and two Grant County Sheriff's deputies helped rescue several circus animals, after the semi-trailer truck they were in caught fire early Sunday. State ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- After a 25-year absence, a Milwaukee audience will get to see what's billed as "The Greatest Show on Earth." It's a circus with Wisconsin roots that dates back to 1882. Fiserv ...