Tucson Weekly E-mail Round-Up

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NY Times: TicketWatch – ‘One Day University’

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NY Times – TimesLimited

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NY Times Headlines – July 25, 2012

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Babysitter tried to save youngest victim in Aurora shooting

Reblogged from Anderson Cooper 360:

A teen who survived the Colorado theater shooting without physical wounds is learning to deal with her emotional scars. Kaylan, 13, watched as three people with her at the batman screening were shot, including 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan.

“I put my hand on Veronica’s ribcage to see if she was breathing,” Kaylan tells CNN’s Poppy Harlow, “but she wasn’t breathing so I started freaking out.” …

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Grieving father: Son 'was my best buddy'

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Alex Sullivan died in theater 9. It was his 27th birthday and he was just two days shy of his first wedding anniversary.

Earlier that night Alex tweeted: “oh man one hour till the movie and its going to be the best BIRTHDAY ever”

“He was my best buddy in the whole world,” his father Tom Sullivan tells Anderson Cooper. “I always went with him places.

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Adrian Beltre gets drilled in helmet, exits game

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Update: The early word is that Beltre has only a bruise on the back of his head. No concussion. He said after the game that he didn't believe Padilla was throwing at him.

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Vicente Padilla is known to be a head-hunter, but this one truly appeared to be an accident.

With two outs in the eighth inning tonight, Padilla drilled Adrian Beltre in the back of the helmet with a 92-mph fastball, sending Beltre to the ground in a heap.

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Dark Knight Rises star Christian Bale visits Colorado to pay respects to shooting victims

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Aurora shooting won't be used for new gun laws, Boehner says: Video

Christian Bale, the actor behind the Batman mask in The Dark Knight Rises, visited a makeshift memorial Tuesday to the 12 people killed in Friday's deadly shooting spree in Aurora, Colorado.

The star also paid visits to surviving victims as they recovered at an Aurora hospital.

Bill Voloch, interim president of the Medical Center of Aurora, told…

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Rays acquire Ryan Roberts from Diamondbacks

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Ryan Roberts was told that the move to designate him for assignment this afternoon was a prelude to a trade, and the deal got done tonight, as the versatile veteran is on his way to Tampa Bay in exchange for minor league infielder Tyler Bortnick.

The Rays were looking for inexpensive infield help and got it here, as Roberts is due a bit less than $900,000 over the rest of the year.

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NY Times – Great Getaways

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NY Times – TimesLimited

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