The Saturday Morning Post

Good morning, Washington. Hopefully you enjoyed your Friday night -- perhaps you took in the scene at Artomatic's opening night, or pulled a Sam Raimi double feature with Send Me To Hell and Evil Dead 2. But whatever you did, here's hoping your evening was better than the one passengers had on United Airlines Flight 7542 to Montreal. Due to poor weather all over the map, the plane was stuck on the tarmac at Dulles for nearly eight hours. Take-off was scheduled for 12:20 p.m., but it wasn't until 6 that passengers were even allowed to deboard and stretch their legs. Ouch.

In other news this morning:

>> Offensive tackle Jon Jansen, who had been the longest-tenured member of the Redskins' roster, was cut yesterday. The 33-year-old Jansen -- who started 122 games in his eleven years with the Skins -- had become increasingly prone to injury, missing all of 2004 and 2007 with a ruptured Achilles and a broken ankle, respectively. Jansen quickly signed a new contract with his hometown Detroit Lions yesterday. (Uh, good luck with that one, dude. Maybe this year, they'll win a game!)

>> The AP reports that a group of 21 students and three teachers from Silver Spring have finally been released from quarantine in China, just in time to come home. Chinese officials feared that the group, on a school tour of Guizhou province, had contracted swine flu on the flight into Hong Kong. The group had been held at a hotel in Kaili since Monday.

>> Slightly more painful than losing your wallet: The National Archives is offering a $50,000 reward for information which would lead to the recovery of an external hard drive. What's on that drive? Well, a large amount of sensitive personal data from Clinton administration personnel, for starters. The hard drive also includes information about Secret Service and White House operating procedures.