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 annual frog jump on the lawn at the California Capitol marks the beginning of summer, but it's also a chance to put politics aside and concentrate on leaping forward, together, as a state.

FAIR HAS TO OFFER. HEY MIKE. YEAH? GOOD MORNING. WE’RE RIGHT OUTSIDE THE FROG SPA. WANT TO KNOW WHAT A FROG SPA IS? WELL, IT’S RIGHT HERE UNDERNEATH THE FROG SIGN. HEY, DAVE, CAN YOU GRAB US A BULL ...

ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — When Mark Twain published “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in 1865, the frog helped make him famous, and he returned the favor. Since then, the frog has made the ...

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 ...

Kate Carlson pounded on the ground on both sides of her bullfrog, Toothless, in an effort to urge it jump Saturday at the Post-Tribune’s annual frog jump contest at the 169th Lake County Fair in Crown ...