Attorney General Martha Coakley may be the front-runner in the race to fill the late Edward Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, but she is crafting a campaign largely free of the Kennedy mystique. Although she shares Kennedy's position on key issues and is ...

US senator Edward Kennedy expressed regret over his "inexcusable" behavior in the 1969 car crash that killed a campaign worker in a memoir to be published posthumously, the New York Times reported Thursday. The crash, in which Mary Jo Kopechne died when Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick island, Massachusetts, and the subsequent scandal, effectively destroyed Kennedy's presidential ...

Massachusetts will decide in early September whether to appoint a temporary successor to Edward Kennedy as US lawmakers gear up for fierce debates on key legislation, officials said Monday. "Within a week after Labor Day there will be a hearing... so in early September," Meghan Bartley, legislative aide of the state's committee on election law, told AFP. "They have ...