The movie It is a hit at the box office but not so much with real professional clowns. The makeup and red nose-wearing entertainers say there is nothing funny about what the horror flick and its marketing campaign is doing to their livelihoods. John Nelson, a professional clown who runs New York’s Clowns in Town, says the movie […]

National

(RNN) – Target announced Monday that it will stop selling clown masks in the wake of the countless creepy clown sightings that have bedeviled America. With Halloween just around the corner, the masks will no longer be available online nor in the brick-and-mortar Targets, said company spokesman Joshua Thomas. The retail giant made the call out of […]

JustAsh

As reports of clowns chasing people through Ohio circulate, one woman makes up a story because she was running late to work. Alexsandra Conley, of Reading, OH, called the police to let them know she was attacked by a clown with a knife this weekend. After officers gathered information, they were under the impression that […]

Cincy

One of the scariest things would be if the movie, “It” was based on a real story or if there was some type of killer clown on the loose. Apparently a woman in Franklin, OH claims she had an encounter with a clown that definitely would have scared anyone. “A Warren County woman reported being […]

9 O'Clock News

Gunmen dressed as clowns have shot dead one of Mexico’s most powerful former drug lords while he was attending a children’s party. Francisco Rafael Arellano…