Last month, gunmen kidnapped a retired army general in Cancun, a beach city popular with American college students on spring break.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

And Sue wore a beautiful white dress with a huge steel-spring bustle in the back.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

During spring, warm air moves north and mixes with cold air remaining from winter.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

The artist represents spring with two young people in love.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

But this spring is a struggle with disaster.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

Trail drives usually began with the spring "round-up."

VOA: special.2010.03.18

This is how the poem begins: When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Most of the tracks lean toward folk, including this duet the duo recorded with fellow Texan Jakob Dylan, "See You In The Spring."

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

Before spring training, Rodriguez admitted to using steroids while he played with the Texas Rangers in 2001-2003.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

We've had fan clubs spring up around our pandas here because people are so fascinated with them, they want to learn about them, they want to save them,".

VOA: standard.2010.02.02