He crossed the Rio Grande River. He marched toward Monterrey,the major trading and transportation center of northeast Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Both countries claimed land that bordered the British colony of Guiana on the northeast coast of South America.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

New Hampshire,in the northeast area called New England, is The Granite State because of that colorful rock.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Connecticut Yankees, as people in this northeast state are called, are known to be smart in business.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

Mexicans were also the largest group in the Midwest and in two states in the Northeast.

VOA: special.2011.06.13

Odell said they had just climbed one of the most difficult rocks on the northeast path.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Maine,in the nation's northeast, is "The Pine Tree State" because it is covered in evergreen woods.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Mister Watts and his team have begun work on the northeast side of Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

When the northeast sky turned black and threatening A storm was blowing over Iceland.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The National Association of Realtors reported the biggest decrease in the Northeast.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

And in the northeast, many middle-class people support the Red Shirts.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

The army says it captured the last rebel stronghold in the northeast, Puthukkudiriruppu, after three days of intense fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

The rebels blame military shelling for killing 2,000 people in the sliver of coastal land in the northeast it still holds.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

A winter storm that slammed the northeast of the United States the Saturday before Christmas may have delayed some shoppers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The city is a hub in the country's poor agricultural northeast, where support for exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is high.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Torrential rains October 1 caused the mudslides in the northeast of Sicily, near the coastal city of Messina.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

Mr.Thaksin was the first leader to really listen to the northeast's rural poor, and so it is understandable they are loyal to him.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Sibylle Schellman, a native of Germany, runs a small restaurant overlooking the ocean in the coastal town of Calheta on Santiago's northeast coast.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

The sandy dirt and dried-out fields of Thailand's northeast look little like the country's tourist brochures.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

The local economy is ruled by agriculture, but the soil is infertile and much of the northeast is in the grip of a drought.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Instability sparked by ethnic violence in northeast Central African Republic has been made worse by the presence of Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the southeast.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27