31.   Officials did not shut down the airport, but no flights landed or took off for about a half hour, officials said.

32.   Officials quickly shut down the sprawling museum and police conducted body searches on the hundreds of exiting visitors.

33.   Officials shut down the street for nearly two hours while they checked other suspicious items in the vehicle.

34.   Officials then shut down the runway lights, making Kai Tak a piece of history.

35.   Officials quickly shut down the museum and police conducted body searches on the hundreds of exiting visitors.

36.   Officials quickly shut the museum and police conducted body searches on hundreds of exiting visitors.

37.   Officials shut airports in its path and opened shelters as residents crowded supermarkets and grocery stores for last-minute supplies of batteries and food.

38.   Officials shut down the mine in April after a drainage tunnel in its containment pond collapsed, discharging millions of tons of liquefied waste into two rivers.

39.   Taliban officials shut down the Salang Highway, the only road link between Kabul and northern Afghanistan, because they said there would be fresh fighting in the area.

40.   The blaze caused officials to shut down part of a highway on Wednesday as helicopters dumped water on the flames.