The music-box tunes, the slow cruise, the icy-sweet reward for chasing them down. Nothing feels more sum-sum-summertime than scoring a frozen treat from an ice-cream truck. They are less ubiquitous ...

That familiar jingle has a stranger, older story than most people realize.

Norwich Police School Resource Officer Bob McKinney hands an ice cream to Alby Little as his mother Sylvia Little, right, looks on in Norwich, Conn., on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill ...

RUNNEMEDE, N.J. − Zoe Green missed the sound of the Manapua Man, and how the trucks, with their twinkly music and icy treats and candy would bring kids out of their houses and bond neighbors on warm ...

For millions of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, the lilting jingle tinkling from slow-moving Mister Softee ice cream trucks conjures up nostalgic memories. But the realities the company’s dwindling number ...

Billy Settlemyers was playing cheerful music from his black-and-white ice cream truck near a Las Vegas apartment complex last week when he noticed onlookers recording on their phones from his side ...

As a child, Phylicia Walsh remembers staying out all day with her neighbors waiting to hear the sweet sound of an ice cream truck. But when Walsh, 36, moved to Greensburg four years ago, she stopped ...