| Good morning. It's Tuesday, July 11. Have to agree that Taylor Swift is weird — good music, though. Onward to the news. But first: Want to gab about sports and catch a free Nationals game? I'm hosting Dan Steinberg, Adam Kilgore and Ava Wallace from The Washington Post sports department to talk about the top 7 moments in D.C. sports this century on Monday, July 24, at Nationals Park at 5:30 p.m. Registration includes access to the event, free food and two tickets per registrant to the Nats vs. Rockies game at 7:05 p.m. This event is for Post subscribers only. Learn more and register here — if you're not currently a subscriber, but want in, subscribe at that link first, then you'll be automatically redirected to register for the event. ☀️ 93/65. Sunny, but not too humid. Capital Weather Gang gives it an 8/10. | | |  | D.C.'s mayor tried to shore up support for an emergency crime bill. | - What to know: As homicides and carjackings in D.C. continue to rise, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) appeared yesterday with two D.C. Council members ahead of today's debate on whether to toughen some crime laws.
- What's new: The legislation would create a penalty for firing a gun in public and make it easier to detain some suspects as they await trial.
| | |  | Dangerous drivers in D.C. could face harsher punishments. | - The proposal: Give more enforcement power to city agencies to target repeat offenders, including drivers who accumulate fines for speeding and reckless driving.
- Why now? The bill, introduced to the D.C. Council yesterday, comes after a March 15 crash in which D.C. driver Nakita Walker, who had five prior DUIs and a valid driver's license, is accused of killing three men.
| | |  | Metro is considering six expansion options. | - Transit officials yesterday unveiled an analysis of ideas, such as a new tunnel between D.C. and Virginia, as well as stations in Georgetown and National Harbor. (See the proposed Metro maps here.)
- Why? The proposals are part of the agency's long-range plans to alleviate projected crowding and capacity limits that are expected to plague the Blue, Orange and Silver lines.
| | | | | | |  | Maryland parents who fought the state's college savings agency got a win yesterday. | - State Treasurer Dereck Davis said he will retroactively apply a 6% earnings rate to accounts in the state's prepaid college trust. Priority will be given to account holders with children attending school this fall.
- End of the battle: It's what parents have been fighting for since the troubled agency suspended earnings on 31,000 tuition accounts last year, citing a calculation error.
| | |  | A famous Virginia pony ranch was saved from redevelopment. | - Where? On Chincoteague Island, off Virginia's Eastern Shore. The Museum of Chincoteague Island purchased the remaining 10-acre piece of the Beebe family ranch, which is memorialized in "Misty of Chincoteague," the 1947 children's book about the terrain's wild ponies.
- Much of the once-sprawling property has been replaced by vacation homes and a trailer park, and just a few horses are left in a crumbling stable.
| | |  | Find a taste of Colombia at this Maryland eatery. |  Pan de waffle sanguchito, left, and pan de waffle con berries. (Scott Suchman for The Washington Post) | - The restaurant: La Poteria Local in Montgomery Village. Owned by Bogotá natives Monica Pulecio and Andres Londoño, it specializes in Colombian favorites such as pandebono, a cheese bread, that here takes the shape of waffles.
- If you go: La Poteria Local is open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 19116 Montgomery Village Ave.
| | |  | Two Virginia high school standouts were picked in the first round of the MLB draft. | - Who? Bryce Eldridge, a two-way star at Vienna's James Madison High, was picked at No. 16 overall by the San Francisco Giants. Outfielder Jonny Farmelo, from Chantilly's Westfield High, went 29th to the Seattle Mariners.
- Eldridge was the first Northern Virginia high-schooler drafted in the first round since 2005, when the Baltimore Orioles selected Westfield's Brandon Snyder.
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