In the news
■ Tyler Perry, the filmmaker, pledged $1 million to help hurricane victims — $250,000 of which will go to the Houston megachurch of televangelist Joel Osteen, who was criticized for failing to initially open the 16,000-seat church to evacuees.
■ Tommy Eschete, mayor of Thibodaux, La., where dozens of black people were killed 130 years ago when white mobs went door to door and forced a violent end to a monthlong strike by sugar plantation field hands, is calling for a moment of silence in November to honor the victims of the massacre.
■ Larissa Vigue Picard, executive director of the Pejepscot Historical Society in Brunswick, Maine, described as “priceless” an American Indian birch-bark canoe, carbon-dated to the 18th century, that will go on display at the organization’s museum.
■ Daniel Henriksen, 30, of Iowa faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in the death of 4-year-old Jayden Choate, who found a handgun Henriksen left in the mobile home where Jayden was staying and accidentally shot himself in the head.
■ Sue Kontos, a bookkeeper at the Peabody Institute Library in Danvers, Mass., said that one day while counting money she mistook for real coins three Chuck E. Cheese tokens that someone had turned in, attesting to the library’s recent reminder that people can’t use tokens to pay overdue book fines.
■ Kristen Gail, the Euclid, Ohio, mayor, added 30 days to the suspension of white police officer Michael Amiott, who was filmed beating 25-year-old Richard Hubbard III, who is black, after a traffic stop.
■ Lin Wen Shan, 70, was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation after he jumped into the water off Manhattan and started swimming away from land, refusing to get into a Statue of Liberty cruise crew’s lifeboat, and was eventually pulled to shore by a U.S. Park Police officer who swam out and got him.
■ Elizabeth Reichert, a 93-year-old American widow of a Holocaust survivor from Cologne, Germany, is leaving $22 million in her will for the city’s zoo.
■ Ethan Sonneborn, 13, seeking to get on Vermont’s 2018 gubernatorial ballot, said he’s struggled to get Democratic Party officials to take him seriously and that he knows it will be difficult to campaign during school, but he is happy to “send a message about young people in politics.”