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WASHINGTON — People in Massachusetts suddenly are thinking the unthinkable: Who possibly could succeed Sen. Edward Kennedy, patriarch of the famed political family that has dominated the state for more than four decades?

BOSTON — Eleven years ago, he earned his first professional win here. For a while, it seemed like his career might have ended here.

SEEKONK — When it comes time for championship season athletes need to compete at their best, and nobody is throwing their weight around more than Old Rochester's group of throwers.

BOSTON — Bartolo Colon made a solid return to the majors after recovering from an elbow injury, posting his first win since last June as the Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 6-3 Wednesday night.

BOSTON — The Boston Celtics expect Ray Allen to rediscover his shooting touch before the Big Three becomes the Big Two and championship No. 17 becomes a pipe dream.

There's something about "being there" for the seventh and deciding game of an NBA playoff series.

MOSCOW — John Terry ran up to the ball, with Chelsea needing only a successful penalty kick to win its first European Champions League title. The Blues captain slipped on the wet turf of Luzhniki Stadium and his shot glanced off a post.

WESTPORT — There have been three very different Westport softball teams this season.

Trailing by a run in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Dartmouth baseball team came back to beat Barnstable 10-9 in walk-off fashion.

New Bedford clinched the Big 3 softball championship for the sixth year in a row with a 3-2 victory over Durfee behind a great all-around game by Brieanne Braga, New Bedford coach Harry Lowe said.

BOSTON — With a career rate of just more than 17 plate appearances per home run, this morning marks the first we can genuinely say that Manny Ramirez's 500th home run is overdue.

'Guys and Dolls' wonderful

Strip club

Freetown ball club does its best for the kids

"Promote the welfare of the city to which I have exiled you; pray for it to the Lord, for upon its welfare depends your own."

Editor's note: Ms. Spooner attended Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's ribbon cutting at the Corson Maritime Learning Center last week. Even before Tuesday's announcement of his diagnosis with a malignant brain tumor, she felt compelled to send this reflection in...

I would like to respond to the May 19 letter by Elvena Souza from Fairhaven regarding Hillary Clinton being "the one" and asking people to "wake up" and choose her.

The concession stand fiasco in Freetown is not only subject to polarized debate among different people, it also can be the subject of mixed emotions within individuals themselves.

"Anywhere I Lay My Head," Scarlett Johansson, (Atco)

A salute to the sacrifices of wartimes past, combined with a tribute to soldiers of the present, will headline PBS's annual National Memorial Day Concert on the Mall.

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"

Lou Pearlman, the man who created the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for engineering a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of their life savings.

For Eric McCormack, the mystery that unspools when a satellite crashes in a small town, spreading a fatal plague, seems like current reality, not the plot of a new science fiction film.

When "Dancing With the Stars" champ Julianne Hough came to town to make her debut album, Nashville's songwriters went to work churning out a bunch of songs about — what else? — dancing.

It's official: The path to career redemption runs through TV comedy. This season, three scandal-plagued celebrities made guest stints on their way back from trouble.

Where to go and what to do in SouthCoast this week

It takes a lot to get me to visit New Bedford on my day off. I commute to work in the Whaling City during the week and on most Saturdays, but the Inner Bay Cafe & Grill was worth the extra drive down from Taunton.

Marion Ravenwood might have been speaking for us all when she set eyes on Indiana Jones for the first time in years.

I have to say, I didn't have the most positive image of Robert Mondavi.

What do you have planned for this Memorial Day weekend? Maybe we can help. Check out these things to do.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My son, 34 years old, has had eight kidney stones in the past 10 years. His doctor hasn't said anything about prevention. What can he do to end this? Could this all be genetic? His older brother has had one stone attack, and his father...

Dear Annie: My husband and I recently turned 60 and celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. We both work full time.

NEW BEDFORD --- Tip your hat to the students, parents, and staff at the Sgt. William H. Carney Academy. They participated in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s yearly Pennies for Patients Campaign earlier this spring and raised an impressive $1,234.77...

Peter L. Manning '09 of Mattapoisett achieved High Honors for the third quarter at Boston College High School. For High Honors a student must have at least a 3.80 quality point average.

MARION --- Quick question: what do these things have in common?

Latin a dead language? Don’t you dare tell that to students in the Old Rochester Regional School District.

Science is coming out of its shell at the Westport Middle School, thanks to a $2,000 grant from the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust.

FALL RIVER — Sharron Machamer, Fall River Educators’ Association President and B.M.C. Durfee High School business education teacher, organized an educational school event where students heard presentations by accomplished union and labor experts.

DARTMOUTH — Sit down. Be quiet. Pay attention. Stop fidgeting.

DARTMOUTH — UMass Dartmouth is planning to create a new school around education and public policy to better address the problem of low educational attainment in the region.

Verizon officials say that the 200 to 300 customers who lost phone service yesterday should be able to use their telephones by 6 p.m. tonight.

Firefighters are investigating the causes of a blaze at 211 Whitman St. that caused extensive damage to the attic and third floor bathroom of the three-story tenement.

Blogger Brian Boyd writes: Selectmen formally closed their investigation into complaints against the Conservation Commission. They took this step in advance of a July 17 hearing in federal court on a lawsuit that current and former commission members...

The Coast Guard Wednesday denied the latest appeal by Weaver's Cove, which is fighting to locate an LNG facility on the Taunton River in the densely populated North End of Fall River.

NEW BEDFORD — A judge revoked bail Wednesday for a Fall River man charged with organizing a three-year campaign of gang rapes and intimidation of a mentally handicapped Rhode Island man.

NEW BEDFORD — Tom Stenson stood in the sunshine filling the Rural Cemetery on Wednesday morning and looked with satisfaction at the neatly trimmed borders and freshly mown expanse of grass in the veterans' plots.

NEW BEDFORD — Police have arrested two men after a drive-by shooting Tuesday night in the South End in which a man was struck in the leg.

LAKEVILLE — The selectmen have asked department heads to take a long, hard look into the future.

MATTAPOISETT — Two students were arrested and another 15 to 20 staged a sit-in at Old Rochester Regional High School Wednesday in a protest that began after students briefly commandeered the intercom system during MCAS testing, school officials and...