21.   Fleck took lessons at that time from local jazz legend Billy Novick.

22.   Harley had also played minor-league baseball in Detroit years before and was something of a local legend.

23.   He has become a local legend.

24.   He was a union leader, a father, a local legend in the small but meaningful way that cops who live and work in Brooklyn can be.

25.   In New York, a local legend can leap to national prominence or be dismissed with a yawn.

26.   In Philadelphia, local legend Kobe Bryant is thinking about skipping college altogether and going straight to the NBA after his high school graduation.

27.   It made him a local legend, indeed, something of a national wonder, and attracted coverage from Charles Kuralt and People magazine.

28.   Last summer, one woman caught camping illegally became the stuff of local homeless legend when she subsequently slipped into a bank-possessed house in Eastham.

29.   Local church legend has it that Senkivskyi was boiled to death and his body fed to fellow prisoners.

30.   Local legend has it that he tossed more than a hundred of his victims into the Missouri River.