BOSTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey said Friday he will not run for the Senate seat that had been held by the late Edward M. Kennedy.

BOSTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says she'll run for the Senate seat vacated by Edward M. Kennedy.

BOSTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A special election will be held Jan. 19 to elect a successor to late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's office said Monday.

MIAMI, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Lower oil prices could make for a tough road ahead for Latin America's petroleum-rich countries like Venezuela and those in the region -- as well as in the United States -- that depend on Caracas for discount oil.

MIAMI, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Venezuela has suspended its program of providing free heating oil for America's poor following a recent decision to slash its federal budget due to falling global oil prices.

CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Venezuela's state-owned oil company is suspending a program of donating free heating oil to low-income consumers in the United States, officials say.

BOSTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts charity run by Joseph P. Kennedy II received a heating oil donation from Venezuela.

HYANNIS, Mass., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The woman Joseph P. Kennedy II partially paralyzed 32 years ago when he flipped a Jeep says he has stopped paying her bills.

NORWALK, Conn., May 21 (UPI) -- Kennedy kin Michael Skakel admitted he was masturbating in a tree outside Martha Moxley's bedroom the night she was killed, according to two witnesses at his trial in Connecticut.