In nineteen twenty-five, a young science teacher in the southern state of Tennessee challenged the state's new teaching law.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

The state-by-state information is not yet complete, but Marc Perry says demographers found a clear trend in population growth.

VOA: special.2011.03.14

"This is ground zero for the nation." Democrats in the state Senate fled to the neighboring Midwestern state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

Traditionally,the president does not fill federal jobs in a state until he discusses them with the senators from that state.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

The eastern state of Vermont is proud of its beautiful Green Mountains so it calls itself the Green Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Many are about his life growing up in the state of New Jersey, where he was born in nineteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

In one part of the state of Oaxaca, potters have been making black clay containers in the same way for centuries.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Local party leaders did not. As one said: "I do not want him raising hell in my state any longer."

VOA: special.2010.08.05

That is a promise." The new governor of Virginia gave the Republican response to the State of the Union speech.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

The group's recent "State of the Air" report said Pittsburgh has the worst short-term fine particle pollution in the country.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The Santee Sioux lived along the northeastern edge of the Great Plains in what is now the state of Minnesota.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

The trial found high school teacher John Scopes guilty of violating a state law banning the teaching of evolution.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

The state is named after an American Indian tribe a recognition of the groups that came long before the Pilgrims.

VOA: special.2009.11.23