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Parts of eastern Massachusetts may see the season's first snowfall early Tuesday morning.

Colleen Kelley, her parents, Joseph and Karen Kelley, and siblings, Shawn Kelley and Karianne Golemme, know well the sacrifices of our troops. Their brother and son, Sgt. Michael J. Kelley of Scituate, was killed on June 8, 2005, after just 69 days in Afghanistan.

The Quincy Youth Football League held the first all-star game in its 63-year history Sunday at Veterans Stadium. The game was called the Desmond-Myers All-Star Football Classic.

A new, 110-foot flagpole is standing tall at Toyota of Braintree, and a 25-by-40-foot American flag was scheduled to be raised on it at about noon today, just in time for Veterans Day.

Cohasset advances in the MIAA state soccer tournament after a 3-1 victory over Sacred Heart of Kingston, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 at Taunton. They will play at 7 p.m. at Veterans Stadium in Quincy, Tuesday, Nov. 12 against the yet to be named North champion.

Massachusetts state police say a Weymouth man who reportedly failed to stop for a red light has struck a vehicle driven by a Melrose woman in Stoneham, leaving the 38-year-old victim with life-threatening injuries. Troopers responded to the crash scene on Saturday morning. Several witnesses said a 36-year-old Weymouth man did not stop for a red light before he slammed into a car driven by the woman.

Florence Choate knows the council on aging has done a lot of good  during her eight years as director. But when she retires in December, Choate will leave the senior center on Brook Street as she found it: a converted fire station with a 40-person capacity, 18 parking spots, endless waiting lists and no privacy.

Local and state police raided two Carver homes in unrelated incidents on Friday, yielding two arrests on gun and drug charges.

Two childen were among three struck by a truck in Quincy Saturday night.