special election

The race to collect voter signatures ahead of next week's deadline in the Massachusetts special Senate election is heading into a final, stormy weekend.

The clock is ticking for candidates running in Massachusetts' upcoming U.S. Senate special election. They need to collect the required 10,000 certified voter signatures. Candidates have less than two weeks to gather the signatures and deliver them to local city and town clerks to be certified by a Feb...

Republican state Rep. Daniel Winslow says he's ``99 percent'' sure he'll run in a special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Winslow formed an exploratory committee on Tuesday to test the waters for a possible candidacy...