Clowns, originally crowd-pleasing entertainers, have increasingly incited panic in people who catch a glimpse of a rubber clown mask. Emerging from forests and chasing college students around campuses ...

Over time the theater masks have evolved and been adopted by others. Some artists draw clown faces on the masks with teardrops falling from their eyes — an image that, in addition to “Smile ...

Target is pulling all of its clown masks in stores nationwide and on its online site "out of sensitivity for the issue at hand," a spokesman said Sunday. The "issue at hand" is the "crazy clown ...