A recent story in a local agricultural newspaper said the first robot cost one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Sixteen-year-old violinist Nicholas Black joined after he read a story about the group in a local newspaper.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

In October of eighteen thirty-three, he won a short story contest organized by a local newspaper.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

In high school, he won a local competition to design an advertisement for an anti-trash campaign.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

A number of African-Americans serve in the local government.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Local education authorities say rates of early marriage and pregnancy among girls aged 10-18 in Senegal's southern regions are alarming.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities in violence-wracked Helmand province, due in part to its policy of treating all patients.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Pakistani police say the men were detained during a raid on the home of a local leader of the banned militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad, in Pakistan's Punjab province.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

China's Commerce Ministry says it is looking into accusations from local producers that American auto and chicken meat products are being dumped in China at below-cost prices.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

About two-thirds of those surveyed say the supply of electricity in their local areas is bad, and a third of the respondents report having no access to any electricity.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

In the days since a local court handed out two-year prison terms to seven former Indian employees of Union Carbide, many searching questions have been raised about the verdict.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

The masked "devils" of the local women's secret society dance to traditional drums in the tiny village of Dugba-yeima, hidden in the remote hills along Sierra Leone's eastern border.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

- bringing in millions of dollars to the local economy.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The U.S.Environmental Protection Agency,or EPA, lists stormwater as the primary cause of water pollution in the United States, and encourages local communities to develop management plans to treat run-off before it pollutes their rivers, lakes or streams.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04