Justin Jouvenal

• Local Crime & Public Safety

Deja Taylor owned the gun authorities say the boy used to shoot first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va.

• Legal Issues

In an interview with the Washington Post, Amy Kovac described for the first time holding the child after he shot and wounded his first-grade teacher.

• Legal Issues

Haider Ali and Arian Taherzadeh were credible enough to ingratiate themselves with four Secret Service agents and scam a luxury D.C. apartment building.

• National

Three men convicted in the slaying of a 70-year-old woman in the Philadelphia suburbs argue new DNA tests point to another perpetrator. Prosecutors reject that contention.

• National

Attorneys for 3 men imprisoned in the 1997 killing of a Pennsylvania woman argue DNA points to a single unidentified suspect. They are seeking a new trial.

• Local Crime & Public Safety

Police are investigating a shooting in Bladensburg on Friday afternoon.

• D.C., Md. & Va.

Informal lessons through a volunteer network launched in the D.C. region have become much more than online language classes.

• Legal Issues

The case centered around a 2020 law that expanded inmates’ ability to be released early by logging good behavior credits.

• D.C., Md. & Va.

Maryland’s iconic Smith Island faces one of the nation’s most dire forecasts for rising seas, but home sales are surging.