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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The end of June once again brings a season that excites the connoisseurs of Rana catesbeiana legs. The opening of frog season in Missouri begins at sunset on June 30, and runs through midnight on Oct.

SPRINGFIELD – Bob Bonnett has a busy day ahead of him today as he marks his 15th year as the master of ceremonies of the Governor's Frog Jump and International Egg Strike in his hometown of ...