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The Fort Tabor-Fort Rodman Military Museum is opening Tuesday with extended hours, 11am to 4pm. Its the Museum's annual Veterans Appreciation Day, saluting local veterans who served their country from the Revolutionary War, to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Residents of Northborough are being asked to line the streets to honor a paratrooper from town killed in Afghanistan. The funeral Mass for Spc. Brian Arsenault is being held Tuesday at St. Rose of Lima Church. He will be buried at Howard Street Cemetery with full military honors...

The Pentagon says a paratrooper killed in Afghanistan this week was from Massachusetts. The Department of Defense announced Friday that Spc. Brian Arsenault, of Northborough, Massachusetts, died Thursday in Ghazni, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when his unit was engaged by enemy small-arms fire...

The officer killed in an attack in Afghanistan is being identified as Major General Harold J. Greene. U.S. officials say Greene was killed when a man believed to be an Afghan soldier opened fire at a military academy in Kabul.  More than a dozen other troops were injured in the attack, including eight Americans...

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is about to return to the United States. A defense official says Bergdahl, who has been recuperating in Germany after being released from five years in Taliban captivity, is scheduled to arrive early tomorrow at Brooke Army medical Center in Texas...

President Obama will keep nearly ten-thousand U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the end of this year. In a statement at the White House this afternoon, Obama noted that the U.S. will end combat operations in Afghanistan by year's end. Remaining troops will continue training Afghan security forces and advising on counterterrorism efforts...

President Obama is honoring a U.S. Army veteran for heroism in Afghanistan. Former Sergeant Kyle J. White is the recipient of the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration. In a White House ceremony, he was honored for conspicuous gallantry during a 2007 firefight in Afghanistan's Nuristan Province...

As of Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, at least 2,164 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.       The AP count is one fewer than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 a...

A U.S. Marine sergeant from Abington is making his final trip home. The body of Sgt. Daniel Vasselian is scheduled to return to Massachusetts on Tuesday. He will be escorted by state police from Logan International Airport to Abington at about noon...

A U.S. Marine from Abington has died in Afghanistan.    Sgt. Daniel Vasselian served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, who confirmed the death of the 27-year-old Marine.       No official details were released but Vasselian's family said he was killed Monday in an ambush.  ...