Twentynine Palms News

The Marine Corps will expand its use of special effects in infantry training next year, with an expansive urban training facility anticipated in Hawaii and high-tech immersion trainers planned in North Carolina and California, Marine officials said.

Pacific Northwest ultra cyclists dominated this year's epic Furnace Creek 508. Bellinghamster Brian Ecker finished 3rd behind Seattleite Chris Ragsdale and Spokane resident Michael Emde.

Detectives said a second person has been arrested in the deaths of 50 ducks at a children's zoo in Cedar Rapids.

Detectives say a second person has been arrested in the slayings of 50 ducks at a children's zoo in Cedar Rapids.

The Indian Wells Rotary Club presented more than $6,000 worth of cash and gift card donations to local middle schools and active duty servicemen at the Twentynine Palms Marine Base.

In this weekly feature, The Desert Sun spotlights valley firms performing good deeds.

Mary Garcia, with her son Andrew, 4, is planning to attend her sister Sgt. Eduviges Wolf's funeral in South Dakota.

Reporting from Twentynine Palms Marine Base, Calif. -- As Marines train to deploy to war zones, there is daily discussion about how to detect and disarm the buried roadside bombs that are the No.

Brigadier General H. Stacy Clardy III, a native of Georgetown County who calls this area home, has been promoted to Commanding General in the U.S. Marine Corps.

The Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit was called out Friday evening to help a group of 26 Marines on a scheduled hike on the Skyline Trail above Palm Springs after seven of the group became dehydrated.

Reservations are due Saturday for the third annual steak barbecue benefiting the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment.

I appreciated and was pleased to read that our Gov. Arnold Schwarznegger came to Twentynine Palms to help honor the Vietnam veterans and to make March 30 a day to honor and welcome home these veterans.

Scattered showers stretched from Corona through Cajon Pass and across the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains east to Twentynine Palms this morning, but the heaviest rain is expected tonight when forecasters say flash flooding could hit Lytle Creek, Lone Pine Canyon and the San Bernardino Mountains.

It's disturbing to hear comparisons of the war in Afghanistan to the Vietnam War, even though in some ways it might be appropriate.

A Marine and a woman died today in a quick series of early morning crashes on Interstate 15 north of Escondido, California Highway Patrol officers said.

Military veterans of the Vietnam War will be honored in California every March 30 under a bill signed into law last week by Gov.

Cindy Barker says it's hard for her office to keep up with the counseling demands at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms.

A group of Marines, volunteers and political leaders celebrated the opening of a new facility for Soldiers Organized Services on Thursday.

A local soldier preparing for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan was killed during a training exercise in California when the flatbed truck he was in overturned.

A Hawaii-based U.S. Marine has been fatally injured in a vehicle crash at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif.