Red, white, and blue barber poles look patriotic, but there's a blood-soaked meaning behind their design. Find out their true origin.

A year later, Barber made the final at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in a pole vault event won by Thiago Braz of Brazil. Barber’s best vault was six meters (19 feet, 8 ¼ inches) on Jan. 15 ...

The red, white and (sometimes) blue stripes on barber poles reflect that history. As early as A.D. 1000, barber-surgeons' work began appearing in monasteries, according to the Encyclopedia of ...

WASHINGTON — Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault record holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical complications. He was 29. Barber died Wednesday at home in Kingwood, Texas, his ...