From 1944 to 1978, contestants dressed like Tom Sawyer for Hartford’s annual frog-jumping contest that re-created the legendary competition in Mark Twain’s classic tale “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of ...

VALLEY CITY, Ohio -- With an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people attending and 740 frogs taking a leap or three across the ring, the 62nd annual Valley City Frog Jump Festival was another success, ...

The competitors may have been small and possibly slimy, but the frogs entered in the annual Post-Tribune Frog Jump at the Lake County Fair showed judges what it means to show some serious spring.

Dozens of slimy frogs in a storage container made to be a makeshift bog jumped around awaiting little hands. They were placed on a felt lily pad on an astroturf soccer field where they competed 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 ...