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Mass. voters brace for yet another Senate race as Obama taps Kerry for secretary of state
• BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts voters weary from one of the nation's costliest and most divisive U.S. Senate races are all but certain to find themselves thrown back into another tumultuous election now that President Barack Obama has nominated Sen. John Kerry for secretary of state.
• If confirmed by the Senate, as expected, Kerry would have to resign the seat he's held for nearly three decades, prompting a special election -- the state's third Senate contest since 2010.
• Already, jockeying is well under way. The big question is whether Republican Sen. Scott Brown will go for the seat, after losing his last month to Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren.
• He kept the door wide open to another run during a farewell address on the Senate floor, declaring that both victory and defeat are "temporary" things. "Depending on what happens, and where we go, all of us, we may obviously meet again."
• And perhaps as soon as next year.
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Police trying to verify motive after man fatally shoots woman at church, 2 others in rural Pa.
• HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities in central Pennsylvania are trying to determine why a man fatally shot three people along a rural road before being killed in a gunfight with police.
• Police were still trying to piece together a timeline in the arduous investigation of the Friday shootings that began in Frankstown Township and spanned five crime scenes within a 1.5-mile radius.
• A woman decorating a church hall for a children's Christmas party was among those killed. Three state troopers were injured.
• Authorities haven't released a motive for the shootings.
• "It's going to take us some time to put this all together ... and know exactly what occurred," said Lt. Col. George Bivens, a deputy state police commissioner.
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