Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CONNEAUT — Ashtabula County produced three winners at the 40th annual county Soap Box Derby Saturday. Children of various ages ...

I have read a couple of times recently in the Union-Sun & Journal that no one seems to know the history of the Soap Box Derby event in Lockport. I ...

Drivers from the 1985 Jamestown Area Soap Box Derby prepare to head down the hill on Baker Street at Bergman Park. P-J file photo EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article appeared in The Post-Journal ...

— -- The Soap Box Derby, an American icon clinging to nostalgia in a digital age, has hit a financial pothole that threatens the winner's-circle dreams of kid cart racers coast-to-coast.

ROANOKE — When David Poage ventures to downtown Roanoke from his home in Bedford County, he says that sometimes he is still greeted with “Hey, champ!” Poage, 82, was 14 years old when he won the 1946 ...

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pennsylvania -- Every year on Independence Day, the streets of Conshohocken are rip-roaring with kids rolling in soap box cars. "My brother and my cousins have been doing this, so I've ...

Although they were unable to secure a world title, the local competitors from the Pottsville Area Soap Box Derby had a great experience racing in the national derby last week. Kathryn Riegle, 9, of ...