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Editorial Roundup: United States 08/29/2023 04:52pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Aug. 25 The Washington Post on wildfires in the United States Maui officials should have known what was coming. In 2014, they were put on notice that highly flammable invasive grasslands presented a serious wildfire risk. In 2018, afte Oher seeks contract and payment information related to 'The Blind Side' in conservatorship battle 08/29/2023 04:13pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lawyers for former NFL player Michael Oher are seeking his school records and information about contracts and payouts related to the film “The Blind Side” as part of his highly publicized effort to end a legal agreement between him and Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy. Shelby Co Four people found dead in apparent murder-suicide at home in north Texas city of Allen 08/29/2023 03:20pm • ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Police in the north Texas city of Allen found four people dead Monday in what investigators say was an apparent murder-suicide. Police were called about 8:45 a.m. to a home for a welfare check after a resident called police and said they had been locked out for about two hours, Man who killed 3 at a Dollar General in Jacksonville used to work at a dollar store, sheriff says 08/29/2023 03:07pm • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville shooter used to work at a dollar store and stopped in at one before a security guard's presence apparently led him to instead target the Dollar General down the road, where he killed three people. He worked at a Dollar Tree from October 2021 to July 2022, What does Florida's red flag law say, and could it have thwarted the Jacksonville shooter? 08/29/2023 02:46pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Police in Florida took a 15-year-old into custody six years ago for threatening to take his own life, though he was soon released following an involuntary mental health examination, according to official records. This past weekend, that same person entered a Jacksonville Dollar Gen Column: So much money in golf makes it hard to ignore 08/29/2023 12:32pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Tiger Woods was the richest guy in golf and played like he didn't have two nickels to rub together. That's one of many traits that made him so incomparable. Just don't get the idea he wasn't in it for the money. Woods won the first of his 82 titles on the PGA Tour in 1996 at the Las Millennial Money: How to manage caregiving costs for parents while raising kids 08/29/2023 09:29am • Nearly a quarter of millennials are caregivers for an adult, according to a 2020 AARP survey. And a 2020 report from insurance marketplace GoHealth found that 1 in 3 millennials are supporting their parents financially, and more than a quarter help manage their parents’ health care. This means tha Jacksonville shootings: What we know about the racist killings 08/29/2023 09:20am • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A white man wearing a mask and firing a weapon emblazoned with a swastika gunned down three Black people Saturday in a racist attack in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter, who had also posted racist writings, then killed himself. Here's what we know about the killings: WH Former Houston and Texas coach Tom Herman aims to bring FAU back to the spotlight 08/29/2023 06:10am • BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — A frustrating phone call was all it took for Tom Herman to realize that he didn’t know much about how the world works for those who aren’t football coaches. The former Houston and Texas coach was on his phone, on hold, waiting for some company to pick up. He felt like i DC Jazz Fest rocks 12 venues citywide, culminating with weekend at The Wharf 08/29/2023 04:29am • Get ready for five toe-tapping days with 120 concerts in over 12 venues in the nation's capital. The 19th annual D.C. Jazz Festival returns this Wednesday, Aug. 30, through Sunday, Sept. 3. "If you're looking for something to do over Labor Day weekend, come to D.C. Jazz Fest," Sunny Sumter Oviedo pitches 2-hitter for first complete game, leads Pirates over Royals 5-0 08/28/2023 11:26pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Johan Oviedo pitched a two-hitter for his first complete game in 53 major league starts, Ke’Bryan Hayes had four hits and Zack Greinke lost his ninth consecutive decision in the Pittsburgh Pirates' 5-0 win and the Kansas City Royals on Monday night. Oviedo (8-13) struck o 2 adults and 2 young children found fatally stabbed inside New York City apartment 08/28/2023 11:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A mother, father and their two children, ages 1 and 3, were found fatally stabbed inside a New York City apartment Monday, police said. Officers who were called for a wellness check on Manhattan’s Upper West Side found the bodies of the young boys, along with a 41-year-old man an 10 people charged in kidnapping and death of man from upstate New York homeless encampment 08/28/2023 10:33pm • ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Ten people have been charged in the death of a man who was kidnapped from a homeless encampment on the outskirts of Ithaca and found buried in a neighboring county more than two months later, authorities said Monday. The charges were announced 100 days after Thomas Rath, 33, wa HBCU president lauds students, officer for stopping Jacksonville killer before racist store attack 08/28/2023 10:02pm • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A campus security officer tipped off by observant students likely stopped the killer who fatally shot three people at a nearby Dollar General Store from carrying out his racist attack at Edward Waters University, the president of the historically Black institution said Mo Faculty member fatally shot in University of North Carolina building 08/28/2023 08:15pm • CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A shooter killed a faculty member in a science building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday, police said after a lockdown that paralyzed the campus community as authorities searched for the suspect. Police arrested the suspect over three hours afte