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Alameda soldier dies in Afghanistan

A soldier from Alameda was killed while serving with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan on Sunday, the Department of Defense announced Tuesday. Staff Sgt. Thomas K. Fogarty, 30, died in Ahmad-Khyel, Afghanistan from injuries he received when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device, according to the ...

• 7:46 a.m. Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Famed spy ship up for sale by auction

It sits among the rusting hulls in the waters of Suisun Bay, the Sea Shadow was once considered to be among the world’s most top-secret ships, built during the final years of the Cold War. Now it is on the auction block priced for a quick sell. For a mere ...

• 1:47 p.m. Monday, April 30, 2012

Fort Ord declared a national monument

A rare California coastal wilderness that served as a training ground for generations of soldiers is set to be designated a national monument Friday in a presidential signing ceremony. President Barack Obama plans to sign a proclamation that will protect nearly 15,000 acres of the decommissioned Fort Ord military base ...

• 1:08 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2012

One dead, 2 injured in explosion near Coleville Marine base

The person killed in a propane gas explosion outside a remote training base near the Sierra Mountains was the wife of a U.S. Marine, and the two people seriously injured were a Navy corpsman and his wife, military officials said on Saturday. The officials did not release the victims' names, ...

• 8:34 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012
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Photos: Troops return home as US mission ends in Iraq

• 5:43 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011

Yoga helps veterans cope with scars of war

Michael Dziokonski returned from the Vietnam War and quickly got involved in life. He went to graduate school at Boston College, became a social worker, got married, raised four children, got elected to the Clinton Board of Selectmen and over the past years, has watched three wars unfold on his ...

• 8:07 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011

Elated, last US troops leave Iraq, ending war

The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each other in a burst of joy and relief. Their convoy's exit marked the end of a bitterly divisive war that raged for nearly nine years and left ...

• 7:53 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011
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Non-profit group helps children of fallen soldiers

With heavy hearts but smiling faces, the Escobedo family proudly remembered Sgt. Jose R. Escobedo on Friday. "It's sad because he's no longer with us, but we try to keep his memory alive inside us," said 12-year-old Elvira Escobedo, whose father died in Iraq in 2009. The family members were ...

• 7:45 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011

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SLIDESHOW: The Homecomings

• 6:28 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011

Body of San Jose soldier killed in Afghanistan returns home

The body of Sean Walsh, a 21-year-old California National Guard soldier from San Jose who was killed in Afghanistan earlier this month, arrived Wednesday afternoon at Moffett Federal Airfield on a white charter jet. Waiting at the airfield for the fallen soldier's arrival was a procession of supporters, members of ...

• 6:23 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011