US Rep. Tubbs Jones hospitalized near Cleveland

[Ron Burgundy]

U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones was in a hospital Wednesday but no details on her condition were released.

Tubbs Jones, 58, was taken to the Cleveland Clinic's Huron Hospital in East Cleveland late Tuesday, said hospital spokeswoman Joyce Persuad. She said family members asked that no other information be made public about the five-term Democrat.

Cleveland television stations reported Wednesday that the congresswoman was taken to the hospital after police found her in a car along a road in Cleveland Heights. Police Chief Martin Lentz did not immediately return a message seeking comment Wednesday.

Nicole Williams, Tubbs Jones' press secretary in Washington, declined to comment on the congresswoman's condition.

Tubbs Jones was first elected in 1998, becoming the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress.

She is set to be a superdelegate at next week's Democratic National Convention in Denver. Williams would not comment on whether the congresswoman's hospitalization would interfere with that plan.

She was one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's biggest boosters during the primaries, then threw her support to Sen. Barack Obama in June.