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Good morning, Washington. Things are pretty much back to normal this morning on Capitol Hill after a potential jumper kept police, emergency crews and reporters outside the Senate Hart Building for over seven hours overnight. The man turned himself over to Capitol Police at approximately 2 a.m., after climbing onto a ledge about 5:45 p.m. yesterday. The man has not been identified, but police did say he speaks Mandarin and doesn’t speak understand English very well. This is the second potential jumper we’ve heard about in the last week in the city — the other one reportedly shut down Washington Circle on Saturday before coming down without incident falling down after deciding not to jump. The Hart Building opened at its regular time this morning.

Barry Calls for Audit of Payroll Program: Sigh. For whatever reason, the District government just can’t seem to handle paying the teenagers it hires for its summer youth job program. It looks like there was a glitch last week that prevented roughly 6,000 teens from being paid on time, and now D.C. Council member Marion Barry is calling for an audit to find out what went wrong. Barry has every right to be peeved: at the beginning of the summer, the city went around touting its new checkcard payroll system that would ensure every teen got paid on time, because the program has had major problems just like this for years and years. Now it’s possible not only that the new system hasn’t solved the problem, it’s created a new one: Barry also said he’s heard some teens who did not show up for work have been paid anyway.

Four Day Work Weeks Proposed in Fairfax: We’d never encourage our readers to move away from the District to way out in Fairfax County, but, uhh, if you have the chance to work for the county, keep in mind they may be moving to four-day work weeks to reduce costs and pollution. Living in the city center = awesome, but could having Fridays off = awesomer?

Briefly Noted: Large group of teens committing robberies in Northern Virginia … Body found in Silver Spring … D.C. Council eases restrictions on earmarks to help nonprofits