Sunday,  July 22, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 008 • 25 of 27 •  Other Editions

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Usher's stepson dies 2 weeks after being critically injured in accident on Georgia lake

• ATLANTA (AP) -- The stepson of the Grammy award-winning pop star Usher has died, two weeks after the child was critically injured in a boating accident.
• Willie A. Watkins funeral home in Atlanta confirmed Saturday it was handling funeral arrangements for 11-year-old Kirk Glover. Glover was a son of Usher's ex-wife Tameka Foster.
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/LEWGWa) that Kile died Saturday morning at an Atlanta area hospital.
• The boy was run over July 6 by a personal watercraft on Lake Lanier, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. He had been hospitalized with a major brain injury. Lake Lanier is about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta.
• Authorities said the accident continues under investigation.
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Adam Scott and his long putter on verge of ending long wait for 1st major at British Open

• LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (AP) -- The ball tumbled over the edge of a pot bunker and appeared to put Adam Scott in the worst spot he had been all day at the British Open.

• All he saw was opportunity.
• From the wet sand right of the 17th green, Scott had to clear two more pot bunkers to reach the green, with the flag only five paces from the edge. Scott was thinking about birdie, not trying to save par, so he confidently told caddie Steve Williams, "I can handle this." The shot came out pure, trickled by the cup and settled a foot away.
• The more relevant questions are one round away.
• Can he handle a four-shot lead, knowing this is a year when no lead appears safe? Can he handle a leaderboard with four major champions among the top six names, including Tiger Woods? Can he handle the wind that is expected to finally arrive at Royal Lytham & St. Annes?




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