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.

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.