11.   Any showers in northern Missouri or along the Kansas-Nebraska border will provide little comfort for the metro area, said meteorologist Janice Bunting.

12.   Arizona should drop its requirement that summertime fuel in the metro area contain the controversial additive MTBE, a top state air-quality official said Tuesday.

13.   Any store specializing in birding supplies, such as Wild Birds Unlimited franchises in the metro Atlanta area, can recommend feeders.

14.   Around the Denver metro area, churches held prayer vigils and memorial services, opening their doors to a community still in shock.

15.   As a metro area, Atlanta was sixth for the second year in a row, behind four California metropolitan areas and Houston.

16.   At least five of the six are from the north metro area.

17.   Attorney Robert Proctor, who has successfully argued against several affirmative action cases in the metro area, is representing Northlake Foods.

18.   Bike shops throughout the metro area are seeing spokes of the trend firsthand.

19.   Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of the largest church in the metro area, is the best-known converted bishop in the area.

20.   Bess, a diesel technician for the DeKalb County school system, agreed the job market is good in the metro area.