Local historian Keith Johnson looks back at a cruel assault of a boy aged around six being trained for a life in the circus... Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, you ...

NEW YORK-- The underground acrobats who flip, somersault and pole-dance among New York City subway riders as trains roll are drawing a new audience - police officers. The New York Police Department is ...

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 million settlement with ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine what caused a support frame to collapse during an aerial hair-hanging stunt during a circus performance, sending eight acrobats crashing to ...

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Seven of the eight hair-hanging circus acrobats who fell to the floor during a "human chandelier" stunt in the U.S. last month have hired a law firm to represent them, ...