11.   Opening up a house is among the most common reasons these homeowners gave for remodeling their ranch homes.

12.   Still, the family has filled its three-bedroom ranch home with laughter and love and provides a secure environment for the whole brood.

13.   The accident happened near her ranch home in Boyd when two large trucks forced her off the highway after the vehicles ran too close to each other.

14.   The land, flat and dotted with brick ranch homes and falling-in shotgun shacks, could at first be mistaken for south Georgia or parts of Alabama.

15.   The nearby hills are covered with subdivisions of ranch homes, tri-levels and displaced Cape Cods.

16.   The rural neighborhood is made up of older, one-story ranch homes.

17.   The scene was most animated outside the Stevens home, a one-story treeless white ranch home in the Floral Park subdivision just west of incorporated Lantana.

18.   The two live in a ranch home in Oak Grove, Mo.

19.   Two years ago, the urban escapees purchased a sprawling three-bedroom ranch home that is almost surrounded by acres of Chardonnay and Merlot vines.

20.   A man shot his wife and three daughters to death at their ranch home, then killed himself, state police said Monday.