Performers and animals from the UniverSoul Circus paraded north on Prospect Avenue from 39th Street to a rally that filled the parking lot of the Linwood Shopping Center. The guest of honor was Ka’Vyea Tyson-Curry, the 10-year-old boy who was paralyzed from the waist down in a shooting that killed his father earlier this year. But the event had to be stopped by organizers after multiple fights broke out.

Officials in Los Angles say it could take several days to repair a water pipe that broke Tuesday, leaking some 8 million gallons and inundating UCLA campus. The photos on Twitter were amazing.

The Motor City Madman takes time to plug a program in which hunters donate meals to food kitchens and gives a veteran the keys to a car. But for most of his nearly 90-minute set, he and his band focused on the task at hand: issuing hard rock at a high volume.

Late last year, the Robertson family of the cable TV smash “Duck Dynasty” waded into a treacherous swamp. Outrage exploded after Phil Robertson, the show’s long-bearded patriarch, called homosexuality a sin and denied seeing black people mistreated in the pre-civil rights Deep South.

With time ticking down before voters head to the polls Aug. 5, proponents of the sales tax increase have a massive campaign war chest at their disposal to make their case. They also have a delicate balance to strike, inspiring voters who support the measure to show up without inflaming an electorate in Missouri loath to raise taxes of any kind.