CLEVELAND (LALATE) – Former President Jimmy Carter’s health condition was good, said EMS, after he grew ill today. Jimmy Carter (video below) is hospitalized currently at MetroHealth Medical Center. But before been transported, Airport EMS tested Carter.

President Carter was on board a Delta flight arriving in town for a book signing of “White House Diary”. The 85 year old was set to appear at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Legacy Village at noon today. But upon arrival at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Carter told crew that he didnt’ feel well. WEWS reports EMS response officials at the airport tested Carter would determine he was okay initially.

Metro Health has not updated Carter’s condition since arriving at roughly 11:30 am EST. Below is video from the local ABC affiliate. Carter served from 1997 to 1981.

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AUSTIN (LALATE) – The UT shooting has prompted a University of Texas hunt in Calhoun Hall. Austin reports say the UT shooting manhunt has spread to the second floor of Calhoun Hall as of noon EST Tuesday. UT President William Powers told news within the half hour that University of Texas “police have secured a perimeter.”

Powers additionally set up a toll free number for information on today’s UT shooting at 1-866 657-9400. Police chief Art Acevedo told news that SWAT, University of Texas PD, Travis County offiicials, and bomb sniffing dogs have deployed. He also said the first automatic machine gun used in PCL library today was an AK-47 assault rifle.

While the first shooter in Perry-Castaneda Library is confirmed death, that shooter has not been identified. Officials in an emergency alert to students referred to the second suspect being sought as being a “shooter” as well.

UPDATE: 1 PM est. UT’s Rhonda Weldon tells news that most campus buildings have re-opened.

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AUSTIN (LALATE) – The University of Texas shooting in Perry-Castaneda Library has kept UT in Austin on lockdown as a manhunt for a second suspect is underway. University of Texas shooting in the PCL Library ended with one man with an automatic weapon taking his own life on the sixth floor.

However, UT police are confirming the Austin campus is still on lockdown as a second suspect is hunted. University of Texas officials have canceled classes and urged students to lock their doors, don’t leave their buildings. They are referring to the second suspect as a “shooter”. “A suspected shooter in PCL library is dead. Police are searching for possible second shooter. Lock doors, do not leave your building,” says the e-mail alert to students.

In 1966, Charles Whitman started opening fire on students from the UT clock tower. He would eventually shoot 14 people before being shot by police. Today, the University of Texas houses nearly 50,000 students.

UPDATE: 1 PM est. UT’s Rhonda Weldon tells news that most campus buildings have re-opened.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – The Hell’s Kitchen death of Rachel Brown was followed Joseph Cerniglia’s suicide last weekend. For Hell’s Kitchen fans, two deaths in just three years is far too many; moreover, the “Hudson River” comments by Gordon Ramsay to Cerniglia is leaving more questions unanswered still Tuesday.

In May 2007, Rachel Brown was found dead near her home in Beford Texas at age 41. Her sister told the Dallas Voice at the time that “she was a delight. She was funny and sweet and worked really hard”. Brown’s cause of death was initially under investigation and ruled at first a murder.

By 2009 on Cowhound, the popular food website, fans continued to question Brown’s cause of death. “That’s sad. I went back and watched some of the old clips. She didn’t seem like the type to internalize defeat” wrote one reader.

Last weekend, Joseph was found dead at 39. He jumped to his death. His body was found after it floated down the Hudson River. Gordon Ramsay had told Joseph that his food was dreadful and that his business as a chef would  “swim down the Hudson”. Joseph had jumped off the George Washington Bridge Friday night, close to west 145th street.

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EXCLUSIVE – ATLANTA (LALATE) – A U.S. Senate probe demanded questions from Eddie Long about the same exact subject levied by four plaintiffs last week, LALATE can exclusively report. Wrapped up in the Eddie Long (pictures below) scandal last week were allegations that Long has had a continual practice of using church funds of co-defendant New Birth Missionary Baptist Church for personal matters, whatever those matters might be. That was precisely the question put upon Bishop Long by the U.S. Senate previously, LALATE has exclusively learned.

Long had called a U.S. Senate request put upon him in 2007 as an “attack on our religious freedom and privacy rights”. In fact, the demand by the U.S. Senate had nothing to do with religion or privacy. Rather, the U.S. Senate wrote Eddie Long that it was concerned with the operation of federal tax exempt entity and had questions over what funds were being used for. The inquiry put upon him in 2007 was brought by the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Finance and written by Senator Charles Ernest “Chuck” Grassley. It was the direct result, said Grassley, of news reports at the time; those reports details Long’s alleged spending habits. Long was at around the time reported to be driving a Bentley and living in a mansion.

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Grassley took issue of Long’s news coverage in fall 2007.  Grassley demanded proof from Long that he did not use Church funds between 2001 and 2007 for personal matters, did not use jets for personal use. But last week, four plaintiffs claimed that Long took them on private jets around the globe even for a birthday, housed them for free in church property, gave them cash gifts and jewelry. The plaintiffs assert that New Birth shifted church funds to Long who then used the funds on the teens.

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Long told his congregation after receiving Grassley’s letter that it was “intrusive”. But Long was accused last week of using that such funds and thereafter “engaging in [intimate relations] and relationships for his own personal … gratification”.

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“Defendant Long told Plaintiff LeGrande that he expected Plaintiff LeGrande to go to school … and have no girlfriends….Plaintiff LeGrande abandoned his plans to pursue a collegiate basketball career and applied to Beluah [to prepare to enter the ministry]. …Defendant LeGrande would engage in intimate … contact with Plaintff LeGrande at the Harvell House” were among the allegations brought by Spencer LeGrande last week.  But LeGrande’s allegations include that Long took his Spiritual Sons on private jets, put them up in lavish hotels, and flew them to meet celebrities.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SENATE DEMAND LETTER (PDF)

Long was asked by the U.S. Senate proof that he did not engage in the “personal use of [church] assets for the years 2001 to the present.” The Senate’s demand came roughly 4 yeas after Bishop Long received a $1 million federal grant from the Bush Administration. Click HERE for more.

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