Superior High School student Ari Robillard, second from left, reacts as her teammates, Taylor Schultz, left, and Paige B. Johnson balance a weighted bucket on their toothpick bridge at the American ...

LANCASTER — These are arcs of toothpick triumph. At Manos House, a Lancaster city drug- and alcohol-treatment facility for teenage boys, residents bridge an uncertain past for a more positive future — ...

John Nunez, 8, carefully placed toothpick upon toothpick in order to build a stable base for a bridge. The third-grader, along with 27 other students at Sierra Vista Elementary school in Upland, are ...

Seventh-grader Jacoby Yliniemi dropped a bowl of sand into the bucket being held up by his group’s toothpick bridge, bit his lip and then relaxed. The bridge was safe. At least for a second. Another ...

More than 180 students from 13 Northland high schools took part in the 25th annual Toothpick Bridge Competition at the University of Minnesota Duluth on Thursday. The competition, sponsored by the ...