Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich Hospitalized

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich is at a hospital after experiencing what his staff is describing as a "medical situation."

Auditor's spokesman Spence Jackson said Schweich "experienced a medical situation at his home in Clayton on Thursday morning and is being treated at a St. Louis area hospital.

Jackson declined to release any other details about Schweich's ailment or condition. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch website quotes a police source saying Schweich had sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Schweich is a Republican who won re-election to a second, four-year term in November. He announced a month ago that he is seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 2016