NBC News has received confirmation that Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick will name Paul G. Kirk, Jr. as the interim replacement for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. The appointment will last until a special election takes place Jan. 19th of next year.

Boston Red Sox former player Curt Schilling is not ruling out running to replace Ted Kennedy on his Senate seat. However, at the moment he says his plate is full. What does it mean?

Pastor Steven Anderson of Arizona’s Faithful Word Baptist Church is the spiritual adviser to the man who carried an assault rifle outside a recent Phoenix health care rally with the President. Anderson believes that God wants people to hate Barack Obama, and he said that to MyFoxPhoenix.

Prior to his death, Ted Kennedy said he hope the Massachusetts legislature would change the state's law so that the governor could appoint an interim replacement. On Sunday, two of his closest friends in the Senate, from both sides of the aisle, said that they thought his widow, Vicki, would make an excellent temporary replacement for him should the Massachusetts legislature make that change.

On Saturday, hundreds flocked to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica for a two-hour Roman Catholic funeral Mass. It was a final tribute to Sen. Ted Kennedy, who died earlier this week at the age of 77.

Longtime Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) passed away on Tuesday, and plans are being made for his funeral and burial. On Saturday, a funeral Mass will be held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston, and later that day he will be buried at Arlington National Cemetary, next to his brothers, JFK and RFK.

Longtime Sen. Ted Kennedy died last night at the age of 77. He had been suffering from brain cancer. While many applaud his life, a look at Ted Kennedy quotes from his past show his progressive stance, humor, and pretty much no fear of repercussions.

Mass. Sen. Ted Kennedy died of brain cancer last night at the age of 77. During his last days, he asked that a replacement be chosen as quickly as possible. However, unlike most states, Massachusetts requires a special election in these cases.

The country woke up Wednesday morning to the news that Senator Edward Kennedy had passed away from brain cancer. Ted Kennedy, as he was most known as, had spent most of his adult life as a Massachusetts Senator. With Kennedy's death are the questions if the chances of health care reform dead too.

Massachusetts US Senator Ted Kennedy in a letter already coined as dying wish letter, to the Mass. Governor, asks to “amend” the law to ensure continuity. Kennedy was diagnosis with brain cancer in May of 2008 and his health has been an issue since.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, whom we noted a few days ago was in critical condition, has passed away. She was 88.