Even Calcutta, a city known for its unflagging loyalty to local star and former Indian captain, Saurav Ganguly, appeared to have forgotten him at the weekend game - there were posters of Khan in the stands, and the star's local fan club walked in carrying huge cut outs of their icon.
The GOP has chosen Joe Negron - he's a local rising star in Republican politics - to run in Foley's place.
He had been a local rock star in his youth, and was now working on a book of photographs of the city.
Less well known is the tragedy of my own local golf star, Jeff Julian, who was head pro at course near my home in Vermont before realizing his dream and making it on the PGA Tour.
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Lucas endorsed Democratic nominee Nick Clooney, a local celebrity who brought star power as the father of actor George Clooney and the brother of the late singer Rosemary Clooney.
Hunter will star as a local women's camp guru in the six-part drama which is set to air on BBC Two in early 2013.
The rustic and cosy onsite restaurant, La Monnaguette, serves local specialties that employ his star ingredient, such as goat-cheese salad with blackcurrant coulis or duck confit with cassis jam.
It sells them directly to a local steel fabricator, Blue Star Steel, which uses them to stamp out small brackets for heating and air conditioning equipment for other industries, skipping the foundry altogether.
Even some of the Hamptons' most lavish estates can be enjoyed via private garden tours advertised in the local newspaper, The East Hampton Star.
Asian Tour number one Andrew Buckle, Indian star Shiv Kapur and local favourite Zhang Lianwei, the 2003 winner, will also tee it up in the co-sanctioned event.
Friday sees the touring Newcastle team as the guests of honour at a Civic reception hosted by the Lille city authority, with star players also coaching local children at the LMR junior rugby school.
Some local utilities also offer incentives for Energy Star purchases.
He mailed 200, 000 letters to constituents, sat down for broadcast interviews with ABC and Sacramento TV station KOVR and gave interviews to People and Newsweek magazines and a local newspaper, the Merced Sun-Star.
Yorkshire born and bred chef, cookbook author and proprietor of The Star Inn, Andrew Pern championed local and seasonal food long before they became buzzwords.
The main draw for such luminaries, apart from the rock-star status accorded them by the local press, is Singapore's permissive climate for research.
Reed was Vee-Jay's first star and helped the label take on local blues giant Chess Records.
Two years later, the wealthy performer set up Five Star, which was soon polling well in local elections.
Arnaud Montebourg, a Socialist deputy, accused the rock star of blackmail and demanded repayment of any local subsidies received on tour.
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Local TV and radio stations have reported that the Canto star, whose most famous role was in the Oscar-nominated Farewell My Concubine, was found dead on Tuesday.
After joining Tablighi Jamaat groups at a local mosque or Islamic center and doing a few local dawa (proselytism) missions, Tablighi officials invite star recruits to the Tablighi center in Raiwind, Pakistan, for four months of additional missionary training.
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The annual appraisal, which will be released in March in the US but is already stocked in local bookstores, reveals that although the three-star options in Hong Kong have held steady at four restaurants, the number of two-star earners has jumped from 10 to 13, and nine new restaurants nabbed a single star.
The youngster has also been approached by the Eden Project to star in a promotional video, as well as local clothing firms.
One high-profile deal involves its purchase in late 2012 of a grade-A office and five-star hotel complex in downtown Shanghai from a distressed local developer.
In the Saturday rains, entries were low at Alston and Plumbland, lightweight star Richard Dixon winning all the senior events and felling local heavyweight Tom Graham in the All Weights final.
Local media and Azzurri fans have called for Lippi to get the Sampdoria star back in the national side.
Local newspaper reports have linked the relegated League One club with their former star player of the early 1980s.
"The race for viewers became a race for local programming, " says James, who has worked for TVB and STAR TV.
Indeed, morning and evening, the Star Ferry is a genuinely useful and commonly used way for local people to hop from island to mainland and back again.
Local musicians Morgan McIntyre and Alana Henderson will join US country and folk star Nanci Griffith on stage at Belfast's Empire Music Hall on Thursday night for an In the Round concert.
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Local reporting: Brad Schrade, Jeremy Olson and Glenn Howatt of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, for their powerful reports on the spike in infant deaths at poorly regulated day-care homes, resulting in legislative action to strengthen rules.
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