The Kennedys News

Let's face it: Martha Coakley is no Ted Kennedy. Kennedy was one of the most committed and effective senators who ever lived.

Among those Catholics in public life who openly defy the clear teaching of the Catholic Church concerning the inviolable dignity of every human life from conception to natural death is Representative Patrick Kennedy.

Even as they agreed to postpone a planned face-to-face meeting that had been set for Thursday, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin turned up the heat Monday on U.S. Rep.

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Esther Kennedy has earned re-election to Portsmouth's City Council. Her last two years as a city councilor have demonstrated her clear thinking, fiscal sensitivity and responsiveness to her constituents.

Sen. Ted Kennedy is gone, and so is his voice as influential spokesman for the preservation of Nantucket Sound.

The Drapers see a shocking event live on television in "Mad Men." Spoilers for the penultimate episode of "Mad Men" season three coming up just as soon as I take you to see "Singin' in the Rain"... "The Kennedy assassination is very well-trod territory, and I just don't see myself adding new to that." -Matthew Weiner, at the end of season two ...

So let's see here. I believe I owe one old-fashioned to Patrick, two to Julia, and four to Slate "War Stories" columnist Fred Kaplan, with whom I made an especially foolhardy side bet.

John F. Kennedy High senior Brooke Hedgpeth is blocked when trying to log on to the social-networking site Facebook in the computer lab at Kennedy in Wheaton.

Published: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 6:18 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 6:21 p.m. The U.S. Justice Department announced Monday that a second corrections officer has been indicted in connection with a fatal inmate-on-inmate assault at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex.

Oh, Betty. What are you doing? Any suspicion we might have had last week that Betty and Don were finally going to be able to work out their problems was snuffed out last night as we watched Betty use Kennedy's assassination as a sign that it was time for her to move on.

Accused killer Steven DeMocker and his ex-wife Carol Kennedy both struggled with finances after their divorce, which caused extreme friction between the two, a fraud examiner testified Friday at the Yavapai County Courthouse.

Watching the health care reform debate from the perspective of an interested citizen in Maine, I cannot help but mourn the absence of Ted Kennedy.

Only once in his nearly half-century as a United States senator did Ted Kennedy face a serious re-election challenge.

A month after taking office, Massachusetts Senator Paul G. Kirk Jr. delivered his first major floor speech yesterday, calling for bipartisan unity on health care legislation - a signature issue of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the legendary lawmaker he replaced.

Yavapai County medical examiner Philip Keen shows defense attorney John Sears an autopsy photo in Yavapai County Superior Court Tuesday during an evidentiary hearing in the Carol Kennedy murder trial.

President Obama's to-do list today includes two ceremonies that add to the legacy of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

The four Democrats running to succeed the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., are each playing to his liberal base, analysts say.

Source: Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence and Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York strongly criticized remarks by Rep.

AG Martha Coakley , the frontrunner to succeed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy , emerged last p.m. from the campaign's first televised debate not only unscathed, but curiously unchallenged by her three rivals.