There will be no New York State Fair this year. To hold us over before next year’s extravaganza we thought it would be fun to go through our archives and look at fair coverage over the past 50 years.

Recent reports are coming in of clown sightings in Brevard County and the rest of the country, but a quick look at history shows that this is not new. In fact, the sightings actually have a name: ...

Bozo the Clown has died. Frank Avruch, a longtime Boston television personality and entertainer, was the star of the children's TV program, "Bozo the Clown," from 1955 to 1970. Several actors played ...

Get out the big nose, the seltzer bottle or even the floppy shoes, it's national Clown Week. Clown Week has been on the books since the early 1970s, when President Richard Nixon signed a joint ...

His nose was round and bright red, his face white as a sheet. His mouth was surrounded by an exaggerated smear of red makeup and his arched eyebrows hung ridiculously high on his forehead. Such was ...

You've heard the news stories, and you've shuddered: In the Carolinas, people have been reporting sightings of clowns trying to lure children into the woods in exchange for "treats." If it sounds like ...