US SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY REMAINS HOSPITALIZED!

THEY WANT TO DETERMINE WHY HE HAD A SEIZURE!

Senator Edward Kennedy, the head of one of America's legendary political families, was hospitalized in Boston yesterday for tests after suffering a seizure.

Kennedy is ``conscious, talking, joking with family,'' the Associated Press reported, citing his spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter. Kennedy's wife, two of his children and his niece Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy, were with him, she said.

Kennedy, 76, the senior senator from Massachusetts, was taken to the Cape Cod hospital at around 9 a.m. today from the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport, then flown by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after about an hour, David Reilly, a Cape Cod Hospital spokesman, said.

``Preliminary tests have determined that he has not suffered a stroke and is not in any immediate danger,'' Dr. Larry Ronan, Kennedy's primary care physician at Massachusetts General, said in an e-mailed statement. ``Over the next couple of days, Senator Kennedy will undergo further evaluation to determine the cause of the seizure and a course of treatment.''

Kennedy, a Democrat, was elected to the Senate in 1962 to fill the seat left vacant when his older brother became president. He is the third longest-serving member of the Senate, after the late Strom Thurmond, a Republican of South Carolina, and West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd.