Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

It added to the unusual population of Forks,Washington -- which is a real town in the Pacific Northwest.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

In eighteen eighty-six, Maggie Tobin left home for the town of Leadville,Colorado, to join a sister and brother who already lived there.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

But word leaked out that it was to take place in the town of Rhinebeck, about a two-hour drive from New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

The pro-slavery majority quickly voted to move to a town close to the Missouri border.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

In the spring of eighteen ninety-four, a labor union organizer went to George Pullman's town.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

At the age of twenty-one, he was elected to the town council.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

by people in his Wisconsin home town. Born Lester William Polfuss, he was self-taught on guitar, and loved to experiment with electronic equipment.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

From Raleigh,Mr.Obama traveled to the town of Bristol,Virginia for another town-hall meeting on health care reform this time with employees at a local supermarket.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

J.I.has links with al-Qaida. Police say they tracked seven suspects to a house on the outskirts of the town of Solo in Central Java.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Most likely. - Well, it's getting closer to town, then.- Bella, you should go inside.

VOA: standard.other

He turned his passion into a career when he moved to the French village of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, the first town that was liberated by the Americans in Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

At least 15 people were killed and 19 wounded Thursday during heavy fighting that began after government troops attempted to seize the town of Bula Burte from al-Shabab.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Across town,the Multi-Cultural Council is taking another approach to reducing cultural misunderstandings.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Three hundred fifty actors and re-enactors are creating the British military presence in town - setting up camp and harassing the colonists, to recreate the atmosphere of 200 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

But one of the agency's three refugee camps in the Western Equatorial region recently had to be re-located after its town was attacked by a group of LRA during a food distribution exercise.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Allyn says U.S.troops so far are handling security only for their own operations including establishing facilities on shore near the town of Leogane, west of Port-au-Prince, where a Marine Expeditionary Unit began to arrive Tuesday morning.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

Meanwhile,senior and mid-level military officers in the Ugandan capital Kampala and in neighboring Entebbe town are said to be taking part in simulations aimed at improving their ability to respond to disasters and other emergencies.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Political analyst John Fortier of the American Enterprise Institute believes the critics of the reform effort will continue to batter the Obama plan throughout August when members of Congress are on recess and hosting town-hall meetings.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

Prosecutors say Karadzic was the architect of the killings of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian-Serb forces in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995,as part of an "ethnic-cleansing" campaign to keep areas under Serbian control.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

In an attempt to regain political momentum in the health-care debate, Mr.Obama told a town hall in New Hampshire that Republicans are hoping to kill the reform effort this year like they did in 1993 and 1994 under former President Bill Clinton.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

"That is to go into sub-district areas and try to build new "shuras", new town councils, new groups of businessmen and elders and other respected personalities and to have them try to decide how this new strategy, new security should be carried out."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir embraced Libya's Colonel Muammar al-Gadhafi and thanked him for his warm welcome, as both leaders met at the Colonel's private tent in his home town of Sirte, President al-Bashir's trip to Ethiopia and Libya was his third visit abroad since a warrant was issued for his arrest on March 4 by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes in Darfur.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26