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 ...

INDEED FINALLY A COLLEGE GRADUATE. THERE YOU GO, CALAVERAS COUNTY FAIR STARTS THIS WEEK, AND AHEAD OF. THAT, WE ARE CELEBRATING NATIONAL FROG JUMPING DAY. SO IN 1865, AUTHOR MARK TWAIN PUBLISHED HIS ...

Official frog wrangler Dave Chaney said festival volunteers traditionally visit area ponds the night before the frog jump to collect bullfrogs for entrants who do not bring their own amphibian athlete ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On Thursday, Aug. 21, ten hardy frogs leapt at the chance to take part in ...

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, ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. - With five generations of frog jumping enthusiasts, one Bay Area family is gearing up to compete in this weekend's Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee. It's a contest for ...

Chicken Wing just wouldn’t hop. No matter what Keeli Ford did, she couldn’t get the little guy to move. She rapidly pounded her fists on the grass behind him, she blew on his back, she begged Chicken ...

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.

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County” not only launched Mark Twain’s literary career but would also later inspire an annual frog jumping competition in Angels Camp, Calif. This year marked ...