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The By Kelley Shannon writer I Associated Press s 0 | S jA| K A Y ETS A R T 5 MS HJ| SI v__A_ U|B 0 BJJL £ C K|S|P 7T L t IT • A N L| 1 |T H E|A O|L[O R D|T J|G A^ C K" T I NNO|S E E N E|E|S|E R N S _8_, 6 3 4 : 7 5 9 T 7 2 9 I3 8 5 5 9 4 112 6 8 2 1 i7 8 6 9 3 3 8 5 7 1 4 2 6 4 9 3 5 2 1 4 3 1 2 8 7 6 9" 2 6~ 5" 4 1 7 7 5 8 6 9 3 4 2 6 7 4 9 1 3 5 6 8 7 5 9 3 "8 1 2 Carter hospitalized Former president sickened on plane, rests at Ohio hospital By Meghan Barr writer I Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter, on a trip promoting his new book, developed an upset stomach on a flight to Cleveland on Tuesday and was staying at a hospital overnight.at his doctor's recommendation. Carter's grandson, Georgia state Sen. Jason Carter, said his 85-year-old grandfather was doing fine. "He's definitely resting comfortably and expected to continue his book tour this week," Jason Carter said. "I haven't talked to him, but nobody in the family is concerned." The former president planned to sta^thV night at MetroHealth hospital in Cleveland, according to a statement from the Carter Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit known for its international work on human rights and public health. He planned to resume his book tour Wednesday in Washington D.C. "He is fully alert and participating in all decisionmaking related to his care," hospital spokeswoman Christina Karas said. "The decision to admit him overnight is pureprecautionary." Carter was a passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Cleveland when he became ill. After the plane landed, he was taken off by rescue crews, said Jackie Mayo, a spokeswoman at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. He was wheeled into an emergency room at MetroHealth on a stretcher and later was up and walking around, said Mary Atkins, who had taken her daughter to the hospital for medical treatment and saw Carterfroma nearby room. "He walked by the room and he was saying he was ready to go," she said. "They had Secret Service everywhere." President Barack Obama called CarterfromAir Force One as he traveled from New Mexico to Wisconsin, White House spokesman Bill Burton said. Carter was feeling great, Burton said. About 500 people had waited in line Tuesday afternoon at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in suburban Cleveland, where Carter was scheduled to sign copies of his new book,. "White House Diary." The event was later canceled, as was a Tuesday night appearance at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham, N.C., according to his publisher. "It's crazy for an 85-yearold guy to fly ... just to sign some books," said Regulator Bookshop co-owner John Valentine. "He's a brave guy. His health is most important" Carter was next scheduled to appear at two events in Washington, including one at the Smithsonian Institution, said Kathy Daneman, publicity manager at publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In the book, Carter said he pursued an overly aggressive agenda as president that may have confused voters and alienated lawmakers. But he said the tipping points that cost him the 1980 election were the Iran hostage crisis and the Democratic primary challenge by U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy. Carter, a former peanut farmer elected to the White House in 1976, has spent his recent years pursuing peace and human rights, efforts that won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Mich. atty. not slain; wife 'vindicated' FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) - A lawyer whose widow was charged with murdering him died of • complications from an old wound - not homicide - authorities said Tuesday, a day after she was released from jail hours after missing the funeral. An autopsy determined that Lloyd Johnson, 47, died last week of complications from an open woun,d on his lower back sustained years ago when he was pierced by a boat oar, Oakland County rnedical examiner LJ. Dragovic said. Johnson weighed 413 v * • • • • i V - - : ' 1 , .• pounds and had other health problems, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cirrhosis, he said. Prosecutors charged 46-year-old Laura Johnson with second-degree murder, manslaughter and practicing medicine without a license after»police said they found scalpels, bloody bedding and what appeared to be refrigerated human tissue in the couple's home in Farmington Hills, near Detroit. Laura Johnson's mother, Josephine Michalik, told The Associated Press on Friday that Lloyd Johnson had been hospitalized sev- eral times during the past two years for treatment of the wound, and that his doctors authorized her daughter to perform inhome care. "I kept him alive longer than he would have been alive/' Johnson told WJBKTV on Tliesday. She was released from jail on bail Monday hours after her husband's funeral. Defense lawyer John Williams said the autopsy amounts to "total vindication" for her, and he expects the charges to be quickly dropped. A court hearing is scheduled for Wednesday. I AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A student wearing a dark suit and a ski mask opened fire Tuesday with an assault rifle on tuc- University of Texas campus before fleeing into a library and fatally shooting himself. No one else was hurt. The shooting began near a fountain in front of the UT Tower - the site of one of the nation's deadliest shooting rampages more than four decades ago, when a gunman ascended the clock tower and fired down on dozens of people. Within hours of Tuesday's gunfire, the school issued an all-clear notice, but the university remained closed, and the area around the library was still considered a crime scene. "Our campus is safe," school President Bill Powers said. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo expected the school to be "completely open and back to normal" by Wednesday morning. Authorities identified the gunman as 19-year-old Colton Tooley, a sophomore math major. Police declined to speculate on his motive. Tooley's parents did not immediately respond to a message left by The Associated Press. At his family's home in Austin, police investigators went in and out TYiesday afternoon carrying bags and boxes. There was no immediate word on what was in the containers. A neighbor said police arrived at the home about three hours after the campus shooting. The 50,000-student university had been on lockdown while officers with bomb-sniffing dogs carried out a building-by-building manhunt. After the gunfire, authorities searched for a possible second shooter, but they eventually concluded the gunman acted alone. Confusion about the number of suspects arose because shots were fired in multiple locations, and officers received varying descriptions from witnesses, campus police Chief Robert Dahlstrom said. Before reaching the library, the gunman apparently walked for several blocks wearing a mask and dark clothing and carrying an automatic weapon, witnesses said. Construction worker Ruben Cordoba said he was installing a fence on the roof of a three-story building near the library when he looked down and made eye contact with the suspect. "I saw in his eyes he didn't care," Cordoba said. The gunman continued down the street, firing three shots toward a campus church, then changed direction and fired three more times into the air, Cordoba said. A garbage truck driver leaped out of his vehicle and ran away, as did a woman carrying two babies, the construction worker said. "I'm not scared, but I was scared for the people around me," Cordoba said. Randall Wilhite, an adjunct law professor, said he was driving to class when he saw "students start scrambling behind wastebaskets, trees and monuments," and then a young man carrying an assault rifle sprinting along the street. "He was running right in front of me ... and he shot what I thought were three more shots ... not at me. In my direction, but not at me," Wilhite said. The professor said the gunman had the opportunity to shoot several people, but he did not. Police said it was unclear whether the gunman was targeting anyone with the AK-47. Oscar Trevino, whose daughter works on campus, said she told him she was walking to work near the library when she heard two shots behind her. She started to run and fell down. She said she later heard another shot. "She's freaking out. I'm trying to calm her down. I've just been telling her I love her and relax, everything's fine/' Trevino said. Acevedo said officers were able to track the gunman's movements with the help of students who "kept pointing in the right direction." The police chief said he believes the gunman ran into the library as officers closed in on him, then shot himself in the head on the sixth floor. Police did not fire any shots, Acevedo said. In the middle-class Austin neighborhood where the Tooley family lives, the street was blocked off by yellow crime-scene tape Tliesday afternoon. Investigators were gathered in front of the home and could be seen coming out of a neighbor's house. Powers credited the school's crisis-management plan and social networking for quickly warning students, faculty and staff. The university's text messaging system reaches more than 43,000 people, he said, Laura Leskoven, a graduate studentfromWaco, said she was in a media management class when she received a text message from the university saying there was an armed person near the library. For the next 3V£ hours, Leskoven and about 30 of her classmates sat in a locked conference room trying to keep tab on events through Twitter, blogs and text messages. "We were kind of shocked," Leskoven said. "Our professor said, 'Well, %e need to get upstairs' because we were on the first floor of the building." |