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- Over 30,000 pairs of jeans showed up at Union Station today, part of a donation effort to recycle them into home insulation for victims of national disasters. The effort set a new world record for most items of clothing collected for recycling. [AP via WUSA]
- A court receiver from San Diego is in town to try to figure out what to do with the half-finished building at 1015 Half Street SE. Construction work suddenly ceased at the 10-story building when developer The Opus Corporation went belly up. [WJLA]
- We now know the identity of the man who appears to have committed suicide by train at the West Falls Church Metro station earlier today. Sangjin Lee, 45, of Arlington, Va., died after placing himself in the way of an Orange Line train at 11:18 a.m. this morning. [WMATA]
- Current Washingtonian magazine executive editor Garrett Graff has been tapped to become editor of the publication starting in September. Editor Jack Limpert is stepping down after over 40 years at the helm, but will stick around as editor-at-large. [Fishbowl DC]
- The city’s pavement testing truck is pretty sweet looking. [Greater Greater Washington]
