More than eighty percent of the performers are locals, including Buckwheat Zydeco.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Villagers,however, say locals had also gathered around the hijacked trucks to collect fuel from them when the attack occurred.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

But it's not on their housetop, or even outside. The Roof,as locals call it, is the Indiana Roof Ballroom.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

In a country where half the people live on less than $2 a day, locals crowd desolate refugee camps, trying to get in.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

But there are concerns that drone airstrikes and ongoing fighting along the Afghan border could overshadow those efforts, turning more locals against the Pakistani government.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

(Speaking) Rage says al-Shabab received assistance from locals to defeat Ahlu-Sunna forces in Dhusamareb.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

The program employs locals as field officers for a period of three years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

So for the locals it is very hard to start a business there.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Locals joke that Yemeni trees are actually blue and red, the color of the plastic bags that you get when you buy qat, a mildly narcotic leaf, and the Yemeni national past time.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

"We are preparing stores such as rations and water so we can keep ourselves sustained and then it will just be patrolling out from the area to see if we can mix with the locals and find the insurgents."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04