A friend inside had told her that one night there was a power outage, and as she was being hustled from her work-exchange job to her cell block, for the lockdown procedure that accompanies any anomaly — brawling, fog, or suicide — she glimpsed the Milky Way.
So, we apologize for the lockdown redesign premature alarm — but look for it in the coming weeks.
Anxious inhabitants of the Belgian capital had hoped for a respite from the lockdown that has seen shops, schools and offices shut, public transport restricted, museums and theatres closed, seasonal markets cancelled, and thousands of armed police and soldiers in the streets.
Read on for tastes both from the lockdown period (when I managed to escape my laptop, that is) and my weeklong culinary bacchanal.
The shooting set off a manhunt that backed up traffic for miles and prompted the lockdown of every public school in Broward County for several hours.
"People are becoming more and more paranoid and feeding on each other's fears," said Sherry Malikan, mother of two boys in the Washington public schools, who wrote an open letter to Superintendent Paul L. Vance asking for an end to the lockdown here.
For more local news, including the lockdown on Starbucks restrooms, a switch in legal representation for the man accused of building pipe bombs in a terrorist plot, an update to the Long Island SAT cheating case, and the debate over city wage increases, see the N.Y./Region section.
On Saturday night, inmates in one housing area on Rikers Island, upset about a routine cell search earlier in the day, refused to return to their cells for the overnight lockdown, a department spokesman said.
The news came from the creator of Revive, a tool that allowed Oculus software to be played on Valve and HTC's Vive headset — and which was seen as the target for the hardware lockdown in the first place.
High school students in Littleton now have a new excuse to get out of class for a few extra minutes: the lockdown drill.
"Muslims and Christians are not allowed to hold services in mosques and churches throughout the lockdown except for Christians on Christmas Day", he said.
