21.   Neither the Marshals Service nor the local sheriff ever approached him directly and told him to surrender, he said.

22.   One time he was driving through Tennessee in a rental car when he was pulled over by the local sheriff.

23.   Reynolds grew up in West Palm Beach, Fla., the son of a local sheriff, and he spent much of his time proving himself a tough guy.

24.   She has introduced a bill that would require federal law-enforcement officers to obtain approval from local sheriffs before serving arrest warrants.

25.   She said she had complained to the local sheriff and had discussed what she perceived as the danger posed by the Weavers with federal police.

26.   The gold drew robbers, and one of the worst was the local sheriff, Henry Plummer, who secretly led a gang of thieves known as the Innocents.

27.   The local sheriff, Martin Pace, says he and the FBI are still pursuing the case, but he admits the leads have slowed to a trickle.

28.   The local sheriff hit Vivian, knocking him to the ground.

29.   The local sheriff seen on TV, and a grizzled old codger in the courthouse square, are really actors.

30.   The local sheriff and other authorities had declined to arrest them, prompting federal law enforcement authorities to dispatch a contingent of federal marshals.