Jun. 30—PERU — Thomas Patrick Kelly, the last living son of the nation's most famous hobo clown who followed his father into a career under the big top, died Sunday at Hickory Creek at Peru. He was 87 ...

Paul Jung, a circus clown who entertained millions of people during his nearly half-century career and whose face adorned Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks cereal boxes in the 1950s, grew up in Dayton before he ...

All the world loves a clown, right? Right? These clowns entertained (or frightened) Fort Worth crowds at circuses, parades and even Christmas from the 1930s into the 1960s, from the Star-Telegram ...

The scary clown has become a horror staple. Featuring Art the Clown as the main villain, Damien Leone’s new film “Terrifier 2” is so gruesome that there are reports of viewers vomiting and passing out ...

When circuses starting making their way to Dayton in the 1800s, they quickly became a major spectacle. We went back into the archives to see what the circuses were like throughout history and the ...

But clowns have always had a dark side, says David Kiser, director of talent for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. After all, these were characters who reflected a funhouse mirror back on ...

Charles "Chuck" Merkle Jr. of Spring Hill traveled to Delavan, Wis., last weekend to represent the family of his great-uncle, Paul Jung, who was being inducted into the Clown Hall of Fame. Merkle said ...

Freshman state Rep. Karen DeSanto spent years traveling the world with the Ringling Brothers. Now she’s representing a rural ...

A television show is currently being filmed at the famous site of the former Circus Liquors in Middletown. A film crew from ...

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