Sunday,  July 8, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 360 • 22 of 25 •  Other Editions

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• Ready, of Ogunquit, Maine, has a small business doing custom awnings, carpentry, painting, welding and other general handyman services. He's also a photographer.
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Friend: 4-year-old Utah boy was trying to make kids laugh when tombstone toppled, killing him

• A 4-year-old Utah boy was helping his father by trying to make other children smile for a picture when a 6-foot-tall tombstone that weighed hundreds of pounds

fell on the boy and killed him at a historic cemetery, family members and friends said.
• Carson Dean Cheney was with his family in the resort town of Park City on Thursday evening when the headstone toppled onto him after some metal connecting it to its pedestal broke, his grandmother Geri Gibbs told The Associated Press.
• The boy's father, Zac Cheney, does photography in his spare time and was taking portraits of another family at the Glenwood Cemetery, said Curtis Morley, a co-worker and family friend. They chose the old cemetery because of its extensive landscaping, he said.
• Morley said some of the children being photographed were not being responsive, so Carson tried to help his dad by pretending to be leprechaun and making them laugh. The boy went behind a tombstone and was poking his head out from behind it when it fell on him.
• "Carson passed away while trying to make others smile," said Morley, who works with Zac Cheney at a professional services firm in Salt Lake City.
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From Scottish struggler to British hero: Nation wills Andy Murray on to Wimbledon win

• LONDON (AP) -- Andy Murray has messed up a lot of people's weekend plans.
• Murray's surprise victory in the Wimbledon semifinals, after losing at the same stage three years running, has left British royalty, politicians and celebrities -- and millions of ordinary folk -- scrambling for a spot to watch Sunday's showdown between the Scot and Roger Federer.
• By powering past France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to become the first British man to

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