He also is a commercial crabber and fisherman. He says if the shut down continues on the east side of the Mississippi, Louisiana's' seafood industry will survive,because 70 percent of the state's fish and shellfish come from the west side of the river.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

From Mel Fisher's Museum, we walk the short distance to Mallory Square, the center of Key West's historic area.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

This week in our series, Maurice Joyce and Larry West discuss America's foreign policy in the late eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

The others were moved back. They were ordered to get ready for a march west to block Jackson's retreat.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

DeMille's epic movies were based on the settling of the American West, Roman history or stories from the Bible.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

Massey's chairman had spent three million dollars to help elect him to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

The Earharts lived in a number of places in America's Middle West when the girls were growing up.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

With her pictures in Life magazine, she told a story about America's "Wild West" in the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

"There's a yield potential of maybe four thousand kilos, ten times what the average is in West Africa."

VOA: special.2010.10.19

In fact,D.C.health officials say infection rates in the nation's capital are higher than in West Africa.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

McDowell was worried that another large Confederate force west of Manassas Junction might join Beauregard's army.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

This week in our series, Larry West and Tony Riggs report on McClellan's move against Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

The wild times in the American West ended at about the time of John Slaughters death.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

"As one business student in West Africa put it, 'English is a lifeline.'" And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter.

VOA: special.2011.01.21