Thousands of frog fanatics descended on the small community of Valley City's Mill Stream Park Sunday to watch frogs do what they do best, with lots of encouragement from their handlers of course. When ...

A crowd in suits and dresses stood around a roped off circle in the midday heat on the Capitol lawn on Tuesday. Inside the circle were several containers of frogs. Every year in Sacramento, ...

VALLEY CITY, Ohio -- A scant threat of rain literally overshadowing Mill Stream Park for the annual Valley City Frog Jump July 20 did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of the participants and visitors.

VALLEY CITY, Ohio -- With more than 5,000 fans in attendance and a total of 738 frogs showing off their skills July 20, Roger Odum of Litchfield, with his frog, Emerald, was named grand champion of ...

ANGELS CAMP — Veteran and rookie frog jockeys faced off Sunday in the Calaveras County Fair and Frog Jump Jubilee, an annual gathering in California's gold country that honors a short story by Mark ...

We may be alike in that you, too, believed frog jumping contests had gone the way of Mark Twain, steamboats and rotary dial telephones. Like me, you would be wrong. We have been with the rural wing of ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Off-and-on rain and chilly temperatures didn’t keep people away from the 53rd annual Governor’s Frog Jump and International Egg Strike Saturday in Springfield. The town was filled with ...

Aug. 8—JEFFERSON — Mark Twain made frog jumping world famous in his short story, "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." And, although fairgoers may have read the story several times, it's best ...

Calaveras County's celebrated Frog Jump will take center stage in Rockefeller Plaza Wednesday when "The Today Show" on NBC re-creates country fair fun. Bob Lema, of Mokelumne Hill, will call the ...