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AP photographs from the scene showed the car hit the building at an angle and was poking into the terminal. The Jeep struck the building directly in front of check-in counters, where dozens of passengers were lined up, police said. |
Lynsey McBean, a witness at the terminal, said the driver kept trying to push the car forward after it got stuck, and "the wheels were spinning and smoke was coming from them." |
She said one of the men then took out a plastic gasoline canister and poured a liquid under the car. "He then set light to it," said McBean, 26, from Erskine, Scotland. |
Police subdued the driver and a passenger, both described by witnesses as South Asian -- a term used to refer to people from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other countries in the region. The previous round of terrorist activity in Britain, in July 2005, was largely carried out by local Muslims, raising ethnic tension... |
Witnesses said one of the men was engulfed in flames and spoke "gibberish" as an official used a fire extinguisher to douse the fire. |
Glasgow police spokeswoman Elisa Dunn said five bystanders were treated for injuries -- one of whom was hospitalized with a leg injury. |
About 2,500 people were evacuated from the airport and all flights were suspended. Police said Liverpool Airport and roads around Edinburgh were also closed. |
The attack left passengers shaken and stranded on the first day of summer vacation for Glasgow schools. At the time of the crash, the airport was bustling with families heading out on vacation. |
Meanwhile in London, police were gathering evidence from closed circuit television footage, as forensics experts searched for clues into the foiled bombings. The two Mercedes cars had been loaded with gasoline, gas canisters and nails in one of the capital's busiest areas on a night when Londoners like to go out and pa... |
The vehicles were found abandoned in the early hours of Friday in what police believe was an attempt to kill scores or even hundreds of people. Detectives said they were keeping an open mind about the bombers' identities, but terrorism experts said the signs pointed to a cell linked to or inspired by al-Qaida. |
One car was abandoned outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub on Haymarket in the heart of London's entertainment district. The other had been towed after being parked illegally on nearby Cockspur Street and was discovered in an impound lot about a mile away in Park Lane, near Hyde Park. |
London police said extra officers were being deployed at landmarks, airports, train stations and bus terminals across the capital Sunday, and had been ordered to step up the use of stop and search powers. Armed police would patrol at major rail stations, it said. |
At least 450 officers would monitor a rock concert at London's Wembley Stadium on Sunday to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, police said. |
Airports and mass transit systems around the U.S. were also tightening security, though the U.S. did not plan to raise its terror alert status, the Bush administration said. |
In the New York area, officials at the airports went on a heightened state of alert and police manned vehicle checkpoints. No threats had been made against the airports, said Steve Coleman, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. |
Brown came to office pledging to win back the support of voters disenchanted over the Iraq war. But he backed Tony Blair's decision to send troops to Iraq in 2003 and has shown support for greater anti-terror measures that have angered Britain's some 1.8 million Muslims. |
The Glasgow incident carried reminders of a foiled plot in December 1999 to attack Los Angeles International Airport, when customs agents stopped an Algerian-born man in a car packed with 124 explosives. He was jailed for 22 years and prosecutors said he was intent on bombing the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the m... |
Recent EIA data reinforced that belief and it predicts an 86,000 barrel-per-day contraction for June. The Eagle Ford (a loss of 47,000 barrels per day) and the Bakken (a loss of 31,000 barrels per day) expect to lead the way in a downward adjustment. |
That cut in production has itself contributed to the rise in prices. In addition, just as producers cut back, now that prices are on the way back up, they could swing idled production back into action. |
However, let us not get ahead of ourselves. |
The US oilrig count has plummeted since October 2014, falling from 1,609 down to 668 as of May 8 (including rigs drilling for gas, the count dropped from 1,931 to 894). That is a loss of 941 rigs in seven months. Just because a few companies are adding a handful of rigs do not mean that the drilling boom is back. It ta... |
Moreover, even if US producers do come swarming back to the oil fields and manage to boost output from the current 9.3 million barrels per day that would merely bring about another decline in oil prices. Lower prices would then force further cutbacks in rigs and spending. The effect would be a seesaw in both prices and... |
As John Kemp over at Reuters notes, that is not an enviable position. Much has been made about the geopolitical and economic influence that shale drillers have snatched away from OPEC. The oil cartel has lost its ability to control prices, the thinking goes. Now, the US is the new "swing producer,” and with it comes in... |
However, if oil companies oscillate between cutting back and adding more rigs as the price of oil bobs above and below the $60 mark, they will not exactly be raking in the profits. Worse yet, EOG and Oxy may be profitable at $60, but there are a lot more drillers in the red. |
It’s anyone’s guess what sort of reception Bryce Harper will receive April 2 as he walks to the plate at Nationals Park for the first time in a Phillies uniform, but when Philadelphia’s $330 million man jogs out to right field in the bottom of the first inning, he probably will be serenaded with a standing ovation from... |
A couple of months before Harper signed his 13-year contract with the Phillies, Joe DiBiaggio took a calculated risk. DiBiaggio, the founder of Phans of Philly, a company that organizes travel packages to away games for Philadelphia fans, placed a deposit on 500 lower-level tickets in right field for Harper’s potential... |
When the Phillies and Harper agreed to a deal Feb. 28, DiBiaggio called the Nationals’ ticket office and paid for his tickets in full. As a thank you, he also purchased an additional 30 tickets in the same section for an August game and asked that they be donated to the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy. |
“We’re almost sold out,” DiBiaggio said of his upcoming D.C. trip in a phone interview Monday. “We have 10 buses already filled, and some people are meeting us down there. I haven’t really seen a trip move this fast since last year’s Eagles schedule came out." |
In partnership with Sports Radio 94WIP, DiBiaggio organized seven trips to see the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles’ games last season, including the regular season finale at FedEx Field, where Philadelphia fans accounted for more than half the crowd. That type of scene was common at Nationals Park when the Phillie... |
In fact, the first trip DiBiaggio planned was to Opening Day at Nationals Park in 2010 for Roy Halladay’s Philadelphia debut. The Phillies won, 11-1, in front of thousands of their own fans, thanks in part to former Nationals team president Stan Kasten practically rolling out the red carpet for them. |
In 2012, the Nationals launched their “Take Back the Park” campaign, which included limiting single-game ticket sales for the Nationals-Phillies series in early May to people with a credit card tied to an address in Maryland, D.C. or Virginia. DiBiaggio led a group of 200 fans to the final game of that series, a 9-3 Ph... |
After improving to 80-82 last year, the Phillies had a busy offseason. In addition to Harper, they acquired shortstop Jean Segura, catcher J.T. Realmuto and outfielder Andrew McCutchen. Manager Gabe Kapler’s team is projected to be in the thick of the division race, and DiBiaggio said the excitement in Philadelphia sin... |
Nationals fans have plenty of reasons to be optimistic about 2019, too, and Harper joining the Phillies should provide a jolt to a one-sided rivalry. Washington and Philadelphia haven’t both finished above .500 in the same season since baseball returned to D.C. in 2005. |
As of Wednesday morning, there were still tickets to Harper’s return available on the Nationals’ team site starting at $23. For a non-Opening Day, early-April game, Nationals Park figures to be more filled than usual for the occasion. DiBiaggio, who is leading a trip to Chicago for the Flyers-Blackhawks game this week,... |
So what does Juan Soto need to do to hit better? Not much. |
Edo de Waart came to conduct the orchestra he led from 1986-1995. Also in the photo are soloists for Beethoven's 9th. |
Twelve weeks after being locked out by management, the musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra played a pair of sold-out concerts at the Ted Mann last weekend. Edo de Waart came to conduct the orchestra he led from 1986-1995. In a radiant show of solidarity, former concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis returned to perform Bach’s ... |
Former concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis, back right, returned to perform Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins with current concertmaster Erin Keefe, left. Here they are with Edo de Waart after also performing in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. |
No new talks are scheduled between musicians and management in Minneapolis or in St. Paul, where the musicians of the SPCO have been locked out since Oct. 21. “We have a lot of ideas worthy of discussion,” the SPCO’s Lynn Erickson told MinnPost last week. “We’re vigorously pursuing dates and trying to work out somethin... |
Jazz fan, pianist, and radio producer Les Block called to tell us that singer David Allyn died last month at age 93. “Some people might remember that he lived here from 1981-1985,” Block said. “He played a famous Mother’s Day concert in Northrop Auditorium in 1982.” Allyn was one of the great crooners. He sang in the b... |
Attention, theater buffs: The Ivey Awards are seeking new theater evaluators for 2013. All you have to do is attend a 90-minute meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 8 or Thursday, Jan. 17, evaluate a minimum of five productions over the next several months, and attend the glamorous Iveys on Sept. 23. Email info@iveyawards.com or c... |
The Guthrie has announced the casts for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” and “Buzzer.” Peter Michael Goetz and Helen Carey will star in the first-ever Guthrie production of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play about a family unraveling; Joe Dowling will direct. Goetz and Carey are old hands at acting married... |
Kate Nordstrum has added a new concert to her Liquid Music series for the SPCO. On Tuesday, March 12, Icelandic composer, musician, engineer, producer, and sonic experimenter Valgeir Sigurðsson will perform with violist Nadia Sirota and percussionist Shahzad Ismaily in the music room at the SPCO Center. Valgeir is the ... |
The start of what we hope will be a new homegrown music series airs on TPT at 8:30 p.m. New Year’s Eve. Recorded before a live audience at TPT’s Lowertown studios on Oct. 24, hosted by Doomtree’s Dessa and featuring guest Alan Sparhawk of Low, “The Lowertown Line” includes a five-song set from Duluth’s Trampled by Turt... |
We’re hearing a lot about St. Paul’s Lowertown these days as a booming arts district. A renovated Union Depot, the Central Corridor light rail, new Bedlam Theatre, new Minnesota Museum of American Art project space, galleries art crawls, live music, Mears Park, new restaurants and bars … it’s enough to make even diehar... |
Artists and crafters, apply now (or pretty soon) for the St. Paul Craftstravaganza, the “rogue art & craft sale” to be held May 11, 2013, in the Eco Experience Building (aka Progress Center) at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Applications are due no later than Jan. 15. Applying costs nothing; if you’re accepted as a v... |
The Energizer Bunny of Minnesota music, mother to an ever-expanding tribe of musicians, Jeanne Arland Peterson is retiring. Really, Jeanne? But you’re only 91! Supposedly, the Peterson Family New Year’s Concert will be her last performance with all five of her children (Linda, Billy, Patty, Ricky and Paul) and members ... |
Premiering Sunday, Dec. 23, on PBS (TPT2): “Christmas at Luther: Tidings of Comfort and Joy.” Produced by TPT and Luther College, this decades-old tradition features six choral ensembles (over 500 voices), a symphony orchestra, a handbell choir, a pipe organ, candlelight and an audience of thousands. Fifty-six minutes ... |
Still holiday shopping? Stuck for gift ideas? What about a museum membership, or tickets to a live concert or dance performance? One example: the Schubert Club is offering a three-concert subscription to its International Artist Series for $99, with seating in the Ordway’s balcony. The series includes cellist Alisa Wei... |
“La Natividad” at Heart of the Beast. The Christmas story transported to here and now, performed in English and Spanish, with larger-than-life puppets. Journey with Maria and José as they seek refuge among four locations within 2½ city blocks in Minneapolis. Begins at the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, end... |
“Family Dinner” at HUGE Improv Theater. A family gathers for a holiday feast. Each member holds a secret provided by an audience member – maybe you? See what a cast of improvisers can do with your deepest, darkest, and/or funniest family tale. 8 p.m. Saturdays through Dec. 29. FMI and tickets. |
“Rejoice! Christmas in Leipzig & Venice.” The Lyric Baroque Orchestra is on the road with a program of 18th-century music (Bach, Scarlatti) and soloists Maria Jette (soprano) and Kris Kwapis (trumpet). Find them Friday, Dec. 21 at Zumbro Lutheran Church in Rochester, Saturday, Dec. 22 at Hamline University’s Sundin Hal... |
“An O. Henry Christmas” at Open Window Theatre. Musical versions of “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Last Leaf,” both twisty tales of sacrificial love. Adapted by Peter Ekstrom, directed by Joy Donley. Through Dec. 30. FMI and tickets. |
One more thing: this is the final Artscape of 2012. We’ll return Friday, Jan. 4. Meanwhile, we’ll post breaking arts news and curiosities from near and far on our Facebook page. So now is as good a time as any to “like” it. Happy holidays! |
The skies can be quite clear on good nights, and the darkness and silence reward heavenly contemplation. |
Lloyd has published eight books, including three poetry collections, and has been an active part of the Twin Cities poetry community since the 1980s. |
Former Sharks coach Shane Flanagan hit back at reports linking him to a close knowledge of Cronulla’s player payments. |
Former Cronulla Sharks coach Shane Flanagan has hit back at reports he was aware of undisclosed payments to players. |
The Daily Telegraph reported over the weekend Flanagan had emailed a list of player payments with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of illegal third-party agreements from his private email account to his Sharks email. |
But the now-deregistered coach denied he was to blame. |
The Sharks were fined close to $1 million over the cap breaches, with Flanagan deregistered after the cap investigation revealed he’d been in communication with the club during his ban over the supplements scandal in 2014. |
“I had nothing to do with the salary cap. Nothing whatsoever,” Flanagan told The Daily Telegraph’s Phil Rothfield, who shared the quotes on NRL360. |
“To my knowledge all third parties were registered with the NRL. I asked specifically each time a contract was done were they NRL approved. |
“I don’t do contract negotiations and I wouldn’t think any NRL coach would. |
“That’s for CFOs, footy managers and CEOs. That’s their job. Why would I try to hide it? |
Flanagan was deregistered mainly to do with the communication around the Sharks’ doping scandal in 2014. |
NRL360 host Paul Kent wasn’t completely convinced. |
“If he nothing to do with the negotiation and player payments, then why were figures sent to him?” he said. |
For co-host Ben Ikin, the issue comes down to clubs getting fined for salary cap breaches but no scrutiny of player agents. |
Rothfield said he had seen the spreadsheet with the money player agents were given and the club official who paid them. |
“I don’t know why the NRL aren’t more transparent with all this, it just amazes me all the cloak and dagger in play,” Kent added. |
An angry Brett Morris has slammed the under-fire Lottoland surface, saying he will be worried if he has to play at the suburban ground again. |
The Sydney Roosters’ winger is expected to miss two to three NRL rounds after suffering a partial MCL tear in his left knee in Saturday’s 26-18 win over Manly. |
The NRL on Monday ordered an independent assessment of the pitch, to be conducted over the next 24-48 hours. |
Morris’ knee dug into the surface of the Sea Eagles’ rain-soaked home ground, sending a giant divot flying. |
The veteran back said he was wary of playing there after injuring his knee at the same venue in 2015 while playing for Canterbury. |
Four years ago, Morris jarred his knee after his foot sank into a 10cm pothole. |
He only missed a week but it resulted in complications and he underwent surgery at the end of the year. |
Asked if he was angry, the usually mild-mannered Morris said: “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t. |
“If it was the first time it happened to me, I’d just brush it off. |
“But I’ve been to Brookvale twice and my knee’s dug in and had an injury as a result. |
Northern Beaches Council, which operates the ground, has defended the surface, pointing out that several independent assessments had been conducted over the past few months, the last of which was carried out last week and concluded it was in acceptable condition. |
The council has also included $1.2 million in its 2019-20 draft budget for a surface upgrade. |
“Council is committed to providing as safe a playing surface as possible at Brookvale Oval and has continued to invest around $160,000 each year in its ongoing maintenance,” Northern Beaches Council CEO Ray Brownlee said. |
Torrential rain hit the ground during the first half and Manly CEO Lyall Gorman said the incident was a result of the downpour — a claim dismissed by Morris. |
“The first time I did it, it wasn’t raining,” Morris said. |
Last year, Manly’s Curtis Sironen, Kelepi Tanginoa and Lachlan Croker suffered ACL tears at the ground and, in 2017, Sea Eagles winger Jorge Taufua and Canberra’s Dunamis Lui suffered ACL injuries in the same round-13 match. |
According to statistics provided by the NRL, there were an average of 1.5 injuries per game last year at Lottoland — the third lowest of any ground. |
However, the venue was highest in the league for number of games missed per injury with an average of 4.9 matches per injury — followed by Panthers Stadium (4.4) and WIN Stadium (4.3). |
NRL officials inspected Lottoland on Monday and reported it was in a reasonable shape and NRL head of football Graham Annesley was not contemplating moving games away. |
Big shoes await Coen Hess after North Queensland enforcer Jason Taumalolo was ruled out for up to 10 weeks with a knee injury. |
Hess is expected to step up in the starting side for the Cowboys powerhouse who has been diagnosed with a grade-three medial ligament tear suffered in their NRL round two loss to Brisbane. |
North Queensland hoped scans would reveal damage on the lower end of the scale but were left reeling when told Taumalolo would be sidelined for six to 10 weeks. |
A week after running 301m in the season-opening win against St George Illawarra, Taumalolo damaged his knee in a tackle early in Friday’s Broncos clash and battled on before being replaced in the 34th minute. |
He took no part in the second half as Brisbane stormed to a 29-10 win at Suncorp Stadium. |
Hess was moved to the bench before kick-off against the Broncos and made just 76m in 58 minutes as the Cowboys pack struggled to fill the void created by Taumalolo’s injury. |
“We just ran out of troops in the end there,” Hess said. |
“That took its toll on our energy levels. (But) they were too good through the middle.” However, Hess will have no choice but to find another gear with the towering backrower expected to earn a Cowboys start in the Tongan wrecking ball’s absence. |
Hess seems ready for the challenge after bulking up to 114kg by adding 5kg over the pre-season. |
He averaged 99m over 23 games in 2018. |
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