Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shawn Wright of Wadsworth motivates his frog Stormy during the 63rd annual Valley City Frog Jump festival, Sunday, July 21, 2024, ...

ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — For the 75th straight spring, the golden foothills of the Mother Lode are awhirl with Calaveras County’s celebrated jumping frog jubilee, an annual rite of Americana inspired by ...

ANGELS CAMP, Calif. A rift between organizers of Calaveras Countys famous frog jumping contest did not keep away thousands of frog wranglers Sunday inspired by Mark Twains tall tale.About 4,000 ...

If you're viewing this on the ABC10 App, tap here for multimedia. "He's good enough for one thing, I should judge -- he can out-jump any frog in Calaveras County." - Mark Twain, 1865 - The Celebrated ...

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, ...

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 ...

Because I missed the 74th Annual Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee this year at Angels Camp in the heart of California Gold Country, I decided to check out their web site to see who had won.

In California, frog jumping is serious business. At least that's the case with organizers of the Calaveras County Fair and the local boosters club in Angels Camp, Calif. So much so, that the two ...

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 ...

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 ...