LITTLE ROCK — QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Our campus is safe.”
Bill Powers,
president of the University of Texas at Austin, after a student opened fire with an assault rifle on campus,
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CLEVELAND - Former President Jimmy Carter 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.
The former president planned to stay the night at Metro-Health hospital in Cleveland, according to a statement from the Carter Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit. He planned to resume his book tour today in Washington D.C.
“He is fully alert and participating in all decision making related to his care,” hospital spokesman Christina Karas said.
“The decision to admit him overnight is purely precautionary.”
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 spokesman at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
President Barack Obama called Carter from Air Force One as he traveled from New Mexico to Wisconsin, White House spokesman Bill Burton said. Carter was feeling great, Burton said.
Court to give all audio in week’s time
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court said it will begin releasing audio recordings of every argument within a week, while ending its practice of making selected sessions available to the media on the same day.
The new policy in some ways provides more public access to the court, which bars camera coverage and previously made its audio recordings available only at the end of the term.
At the same time, the changes mean the audio can’t be used for same-day and next-day reporting. Over the past decade, the court has released audio recordings immediately after arguments in a handful of the highest-profile cases.
However, in the term that began in October 2009, the court rejected all seven requests submitted by C-SPAN for same day recordings.
The new policy “makes the audio available in a significantly accelerated way directly to the public,” said Kathy Arberg, the Supreme Court’s spokesman. The new policy “eliminates the task of assessing the level of public interest.”
Ex-Sen. Stevens gets military burial
ARLINGTON, Va. - Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who served in the Senate longer than any Republican in history, was buried with full military honors Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery.
Dozens of his Senate colleagues were among the hundreds attending the burial rites on a hillside with a view of the State Department on the other side of the Potomac River.
A caisson led by six horses and followed by an eight man honor guard escorted the body to the burial site, where a firing party fired three rifle volleys and four F-22 Raptors did a flyover as a bugler played “Taps.”
Stevens was one of five people killed in an Aug. 9 plane crash in southwest Alaska. He was 86.
Stevens was a World War II veteran and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He went into public service before Alaska became a state in 1959 and was appointed to the Senate in December 1968.
Stevens lost his seat in the election of 2008, when he was convicted on corruption charges shortly before Election Day. A federal judge later threw out the verdict because of misconduct by federal prosecutors.
Killings of 4, one a tot, spur manhunt
BOSTON - Police scoured Boston for clues and suspects Tuesday after four people, including a toddler, were fatally shot overnight.
Some of the victims were apparently dragged from a house and killed in the street, where their naked bodies were found, a neighbor said. A fifth victim was hospitalized and not expected to survive, police said.
A neighbor who heard the gunfire at about 1 a.m. ran to see what happened and saw two nude bodies on the ground.
“People were screaming from the windows, saying, ‘Help, help,”’ said Ralph Myrthil, 43.
Two men and a woman were found in the street and pronounced dead at the scene in the Mattapan neighborhood.
The toddler, a 2- or 3-year-old boy, was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said. Another man was in critical condition.
The victims were not immediately identified, and autopsies were planned.
Law enforcement officials said that they didn’t know a motive and that no suspects had been identified.
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