This year marks 250 years since the start of modern circus. It was in 1768 that Philip Astley began his circus entertainment in Waterloo in London. To celebrate, here's the latest in our new series of ...

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Rema Raman is a 50-year-old medical researcher with an office job, but she’s flexible enough to do the splits. At age 43, Anna Kataoka was inactive because of an injury. Now, at 48, she does ...

In a similar incident last year in April, a circus performer was caught on camera falling face-first onto the stage during an ...

Emergency physician Nathan Hollister noticed that when a UFC fighter came into the ER, or a member of the Las Vegas Raiders or Vegas Golden Knights, there were special protocols for treating their ...

Children in grades K-4 in the Novi Community School District in the Novi4ALL Program were treated to a special ...

Hannah Lam always knew she wanted to travel with the circus, something she started doing as a child. Her parents were traveling circus performers who trained exotic animals such as tigers. At age 12, ...

Culpepper & Merriweather Great Combined Circus. When: 5 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday for two 90-minute shows. Where: Field across from First Baptist Church, 500 E. Commercial St. in Inola. Event highlights ...

Louisiana-born Lance Centanni-Sachs started studying Mongolian contortion at the age of 23. Now at 29, he is preparing for his second trip to Mongolia as part of a documentary project to trace the ...

The shocking story of hot shot Calgarian Ryan Jenkins and his ex-wife, Jasmine Fiore, is a tragedy from every angle. Both are dead. He’s accused of her murder. Yet their story has me thinking of ...

Shocking footage captured the moment acrobat Aliane Dias crashed to the ground just seconds into her performance - with gasps ...