NEW YORK — In a posthumous memoir, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy writes of fear and remorse surrounding the fateful events on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, when his car accident left a woman dead.

“True Compass” is to be published Sept.…

By Richard Simon
Tribune Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who died Tuesday night at age 77, shaped national policy on a wide range of issues but especially health, education, civil rights and labor issues during nearly 47 years in the…

By Reid J. Epstein
Newsday

MELVILLE, N.Y. — Were it not for Chappaquiddick, Edward M. Kennedy may have followed his brother to the White House.

Before July 18, 1969, when he was the driver in a car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne,…

By David Lightman and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Securing universal health care coverage for Americans was a decades-long quest that eluded Sen. Edward Kennedy. In the wake of his death, however, several key Democrats on Wednesday saw a chance to…

BY GLEN JOHNSON
Associated Press

BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was a Democrat’s Democrat, so much so that he became a rallying point for those in his party and an object of derision for Republican opponents.

Yet his affability and capability to…

BY GLEN JOHNSON AND PHILIP ELLIOTT
The Associated Press

CHILMARK, Mass. — Edward M. Kennedy was much more than just former Senate colleague and influential legislator to Barack Obama, evident in the president’s personal, mournful tribute on Wednesday.

Obama lauded the Massachusetts senator’s…

BY LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In an era of bitter political division, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s death silenced a singular voice of bipartisanship at a time when colleagues are struggling with angry constituents and each other over an elusive plan…

BY ALLEN G. BREED
The Associated Press

BOSTON — Hundreds of photographs line the walls of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. For the moment, one in particular has captivated a visitor from New Hampshire.

In the black-and-white image, taken in…

BY STEVE LEBLANC
Associated Press Writer

BOSTON — For the first time in nearly half a century, Massachusetts voters will be handed ballots for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy without his name on them.

The long list of potential…

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Joseph Kennedy, the millionaire businessman and one-time ambassador to Great Britain, and his wife, Rose, had nine children. Three became senators and one a president.

Joseph Kennedy died in 1969 at age 81 and Rose died in 1995…