Until it was shut down last week, my paper, FrontPage Africa, had been setting a new standard for journalism in West Africa.
German authorities ordered the continued closure of a railway route into the country from Austria that tens of thousands of refugees used until it was shut last week.
Her unit, which legal experts said was the worst of any major American city until it was shut in January, helped convict scores and possibly hundreds of defendants.
Until it was shut down, the sham embassy was housed in a rundown, pink two-storey building with a corrugated iron roof and flew an American flag outside.
And for about half of Jamboree's life, until it was shut down in 2005, the show was broadcast from the Capitol Music Hall here.
One film, "Irish Ropes," documents a boxing gym where, until it was shut down for a zoning violation, an Irish coach taught local Rockaway boys to fight.
This month it announced the reopening of a nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, which produced plutonium until it was shut down in 2007 as part of a foreign-aid deal.
The engineer, Alan Ellis, ran the file-sharing Web site OiNK.cd, which is now defunct, from an apartment in Middlesbrough, in northern England, from 2004 to 2007 until it was shut down in a police raid.
The five-megawatt, graphite-moderated reactor, which experts say would require significant effort to bring back on line, had been the main source of plutonium bomb fuel until it was shut down under the deal with the United States.
Probably more typical, unfortunately, are the subjects who spent time in a drug testing site in Miami, the largest in the country until it was shut down for fire and safety violations.
