21.   The rarely-used legal maneuver by the Northeast states follows years of frustration over air-borne smog flowing east and north from industrial centers in the Midwest.

22.   The thunderstorm that zapped the electronics was one of a bevy that invaded the Northeast states late Wednesday.

23.   Unsettled weather will occur in the Northeast states as a front wavers over the region during the next few days.

24.   Warm weather will embrace much of the Middle Atlantic and Northeast states, with cirrus clouds mixing with sunshine over the eastern Great Lakes and upper Ohio Valley.

25.   A plan to create a permanent emergency home heating oil reserve for Northeast states suffered a blow Thursday when it was stripped from a funding bill.

26.   Additional soldiers were flown to the northeast state of Tripura on Monday to help quell ethnic violence escalating in the region.

27.   Army troops engaged the rebels in battle in the northeast state of La Guajira, on the border with Venezuela, on Tuesday.

28.   At present there is only one bridge across the river in a town called Golok in northeast Kelantan state.

29.   He was chosen to the upper house of Parliament from the northeast state of Assam nine days before his first term ended.

30.   He was elected to the upper house of Parliament from the northeast state of Assam nine days before his first term ended.