ORANGE, N.J., Sept. 24. -- Ernest Melville, a circus rider, for several years with the Barnum Bailey Show, is in jail for stabbing his wife's stepfather with a carving knife. The assault took ...

He added: “It was like an elephant in the circus ... contrary to the principles of horse welfare” and has decided to provisionally suspend the rider for six months with immediate effect.

Laser beams have revealed unknown structures, including the remains of a circus that hosted horse-drawn chariot races, that were once part of a sprawling Roman city hidden in what is now northern ...