21.  Others set fire to Muslim homes and mosques in the northwestern state of Haryana.

22.  Otherwise, high pressure will produce generally tranquil conditions over the Northwestern states.

23.  Powerful jet-stream winds will continue to direct moist Pacific air into the northwestern states.

24.  Rain will mix with snow Tuesday afternoon from eastern Minnesota to the northwestern Great Lakes states.

25.  Snow will be common along west-facing slopes from the Northwestern states to the central Rockies as brisk high-level winds import moist air from over the Pacific.

26.  The arrival of warmer air will be accompanied by patchy clouds and a few showers across the northwestern Great Lakes states.

27.  The events that culminated in Kaduna began in October when the governor of the remote northwestern state of Zamfara announced his intention to enact the Shariah as state law.

28.  The latest in a series of unseasonably cool air masses will spread over the northwestern states.

29.  The northwestern states also face an inflow of white Californians irritated about crime, pollution -- and growing Latino influence.

30.  These days, the citizens speculate about the chupacabra, an unidentified goatsucker that has destroyed animals in this northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa.