Runners-up include Andrew Ford, “Blood and Money” ( ); Dan Woike, “Darvin Ham Survived the Streets, a Stray Bullet and Intense Grief to Coach the Lakers” ( ); William Wan, “Is This What a Good Mother Looks Like?” ( ); Annie Gowen, “A Jan. 6 Pastor Divides His Tennessee Community with Increasingly Extremist Views” ( ); and Edgar Sandoval, “Uvalde Stories” ( ); and Lane DeGregory, “To End His Wife’s Suffering, He Shot Her. Was It Mercy or Murder?” ( ).