In California,though, a new state law reduces the offense for possessing a small amount of marijuana.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

But relations between workers and growers in California worsened under a new state government.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

But a new state law in Arizona will make it a crime.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

The new state governments did many good things.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Many of these new state officials were dishonest.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Many new state banks opened.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Ending a 15-year ban, a new state law allows concealed weapons permit holders to carry guns into restaurants that serve alcohol, as long as they do not drink.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

The band's lead singer Erika Lewis moved to New Orleans from New York state because of her love of music.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

I'm Faith Lapidus. One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

David Johnson is a chemistry professor in the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

It got its nickname, The Garden State, because New Jersey truck farms once provided vegetables to those big cities.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

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

After she graduated, a friend suggested she try to establish the first public school in the state of New Jersey.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

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

In nineteen twenty-two, two stations in New York State joined together to broadcast the championship game of American baseball.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

In the eighteen twenties, in the state of New York, a man named Joseph Smith started the Mormon religion.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

She studied music at Florida State University and later moved to New York City to study violin and composition.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

And today a hospital in her home state of New Jersey is known as Clara Maass Medical Center.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Every year thousands of bands and fans travel to the southern state of Louisiana for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

One was called "Empire". It showed a filmed image of the Empire State Building in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.09.05