NEW YORK (AP) – "Hair hanging" is an incredibly painful, highly specialized aerial performance in the circus world, confined to certain families who pass their secrets about the tradition down through ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has contested a citation it received from federal regulators for an accident that sent eight hair-hanging acrobats plummeting to the ground during a live ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The last time Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performed in Rhode Island, eight acrobats suspended by their hair plummeted to the ground before a crowd of thousands. A ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — One of eight circus acrobats who plunged about 20 feet to the ground during a hair-hanging act witnessed by thousands says she’ll perform the stunt again. ‘‘For me, you gotta get ...

Seven of the eight hair-hanging circus acrobats who fell to the ground during a "human chandelier" stunt in Providence last month have hired a Chicago-based law firm to represent them, the firm ...

NEW YORK – "Hair hanging" is an incredibly painful, highly specialized aerial performance in the circus world, confined to certain families who pass their secrets about the tradition down through ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus misused a key rigging component in a hair-hanging stunt, causing a fall that seriously injured eight acrobats, federal workplace safety ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.-- One of eight circus acrobats who plunged about 20 feet to the ground during a hair-hanging act witnessed by thousands says she'll perform the stunt again. "For me, you gotta get ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus misused a key rigging component in a hair-hanging stunt, causing a fall that seriously injured eight acrobats, federal workplace safety regulators said ...

AN acrobat plummeted 36 feet and seriously injured herself during a circus show after dangling from a hoop by her neck. Horrified kids on school holidays initially thought the trapeze accident was ...