Police say the student posted an image of himself on Instagram with the caption “school shooter” along with two gun emojis.

Akilah Johnson won first place among 100,000 submissions.

UPDATE: WTOP is reporting that part of a building under construction in Rosslyn has collapsed, and that there are reported injuries, but at this point they don’t know how severe. The building is at the corner of North Lynn Street and 19th Street. We’ll update again when we learn more. MORE: “Arlington Police spokesman John Lisle says a slab of wet concrete partially collapsed on the 24th floor of the building on North Lynn Street.”…

We’ll have to check our calendars, but apparently this is official Teachers Go Crazy Week in D.C. Public Schools. Wednesday morning Shawn Hearn, principal at Eastern High School, was arrested after fighting with a student. Police say there was an altercation between Hearn and two students that quickly turned physical. Hearn and one teenager were charged with assault and released. Then NBC4 reported on another adult/student fracas in their 11 p.m. broadcast. A 15-year-old student…

Should we just call the election now? Probably not. But Linda Cropp walked away with a small, symbolic victory yesterday, emerging the leader of a straw poll sponsored by the Ward 6 Democrats. Cropp walked away with 42 percent of the 203 votes, trailed by Marie Johns, who took in 21 percent and Adrian Fenty who received 17 percent. Michael Brown and Vincent Orange trailed behind, with 7 and 4 percent of the votes, respectively….

To date, much of the talk of the District mayoral race has been guesses and assumptions. While no one has the numbers to back it, the common wisdom is that Adrian Fenty and Linda Cropp are leading the charge, with third place a toss-up between Vincent Orange and Marie Johns (even though Orange claims the race is between him and Cropp). Today that may change. The Ward 6 Democrats are hosting a mayoral forum and…

(Editor’s Note: And for the first part of our Nationals opening day coverage, we start outside the stadium.) As 46,000 anxious baseball fans filed slowly into Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium for the Nationals’ long-awaited return to the District, 100 students, parents and activists protested the state of the city’s schools. Standing behind a banner that boldly read “Millions for Stadiums, Peanuts For Schools,” they denounced schools in disrepair and falling behind in most education…