Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An acrobat lifts another using his feet. I hadn’t set foot in a circus since I was five-years-old. Back in the day, it was mostly ...

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When: 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: Available for sale before each show outside the big tent for $15, $20 or $30 each. Charity: ...

Singer Lauren Irving plays a central part in the resurrection of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. She’s not the ringmaster, but she’s close to it. “I never get tired of hearing that I ...

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