A fire broke out Thursday morning at a set of decommissioned Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars that have remained parked on a rail line in a wooded area northeast of Spring Hope.

A memorial service for the five people killed in the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck of 1893 will be held next week. The service marking the 130th anniversary of the derailment will be held at 10 ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jared Daughenbaugh gets help from his son, Brodie, 3, laying the wreath at the 130 year anniversary of the Walter L. Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday ...

The saga of the former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars stashed in the North Carolina woods has come to an end. The last of the train cars have been sold, five years after the N.C.

The state Department of Transportation is trying again to auction off five railroad cars where circus performers and crew once slept as they moved around the country. The cars were unscathed by a fire ...

In honor of spooky season, the Ledger-Enquirer is exploring some of Columbus’ most unsettling true-life stories and some of them are scarier than fiction. These stories are (mostly) true and are as ...