11.   Some of the biggest can be found in Olathe and in the old Montgomery Ward building in the northeast area of Kansas City.

12.   Suspicions that the Bass triplets were malnourished arose at least two years ago when they attended Whittier Elementary School in the Northeast area.

13.   The tiny Daughters of Charity convent in the Northeast area is tucked back from the street, beyond a wrought-iron gate and stately courtyard awash in blooms.

14.   Police searched a mountainous area northeast of Rome Tuesday for a kidnapped Italian industrialist after arresting four suspected abductors in a highway shoot-out.

15.   Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says initial reports from the area northeast of the capital indicate the explosion was accidental.

16.   Police also reported an exchange of infantry and artillery fire in the Kumanovo area northeast of the capital, Skopje.

17.   A baboon that flung itself on electric cables to try to rescue its baby started a mountain fire and cut power to an area northeast of Cape Town.

18.   A U.S. Army helicopter crashed in a remote area northeast of Seoul and rescue workers were searching for its crew members, military officials said Wednesday.

19.   All three crewmen of a downed U.S. military helicopter were found dead in a remote, mountainous area northeast of Seoul, American officials said Friday.

20.   Doppler weather radar detected patches of low rain clouds over the area northeast of the islands.