1.   Its old courthouse, streets lined with Victorian homes and town square scream heartland.

2.   And they just turned it into a flea market around the old courthouse square.

3.   As afternoon headed toward dusk Wednesday, the rain only increased, wrapping the old courthouse in chalk-colored clouds.

4.   As the arguments unfolded in the old federal courthouse, the case presented a host of incongruities.

5.   Behind our car, a young defendant stood outside the old courthouse arguing with his mother.

6.   Every December, the people of Cottonwood Falls decorate their old courthouse with Christmas lights.

7.   For three weeks now, they have marched into an old courthouse here to face the federal grand jury investigating a presidential relationship that is transfixing the country.

8.   Fortified with only a peanut butter sandwich, Platte, hungry, thirsty and tired, staggered past the old courthouse, determined to get home before dark.

9.   Gov. George W. Bush wants to boost reading skills, renovate old courthouses and give franchise tax exemptions to small businesses.

10.   His brother, Dennis, gently pounded a railing in the old courthouse balcony.