Twentynine Palms News

A volunteer group that provides free shuttle rides for Marines between Palm Springs International Airport and Twentynine Palms is facing its own enemy: rising gasoline prices.

I would like to thank The Desert Sun for Wednesday's page 1 article on Erica Stone's SOS, the service that provides transportation for Marines to and from the airport and Twentynine Palms.

I cannot believe that SOS and the USO have to go begging for money for gasoline to help our servicepeople.

Desert Falls Country Club in Palm Desert will have a golf tournament to benefit Soldiers Organized Services beginning at 7:30 a.m. July 12 at the club, 1111 Desert Falls Parkway.

BRYANT -- A year doesn't numb the pain. No matter how many times Ernie Whitacre closes his eyes, the nightmare of June 19, 2008, is still real.

About this time of year, Coachella Valley residents start looking for places to escape the heat on weekends.

Two men died and two women were critically injured in a suspected drunk-driving crash Wednesday at Joshua Tree National Park.

I am a driver for Soldiers Organized Services. Recently, I picked up a Marine at the Palm Springs airport who needed a ride out to the Marine base in Twentynine Palms.

Dick Bowers, 90, of Montezuma, Iowa, was making his first trip to Naval Base Ventura County since November 1942, to revisit where he was stationed during his time as one of the original Seabees.

An Owatonna man has been awarded the Bronze Star for heroic achievement after his deployment with the 2nd Battalion-7th Marines Golf Company First Platoon.

With the U.S. in the middle of two wars, the military is striving for new ways to get the upper hand in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif., will be the first Marine installation to test new independent suspension systems planned for mine-resistant vehicles in Afghanistan, officials said.

Sheriff's deputies arrested an intoxicated 18-year-old Twentynine Palms man Monday after he was involved in a hit-and-run crash, officials said.

A fight involving several U.S. Marines and civilians escalated into a shooting Sunday when one of the people began firing a gun into the air.

Jeremiah McCleery was only 4 when his father drove him from the family's home in Rialto to Twentynine Palms, Calif., to watch the triumphant -- and emotional -- return of U.S. soldiers from the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

KPSP Local 2 News has exclusive new information on a serial killer who has confessed to murdering three Coachella Valley women and coming very close to killing a fourth.

Eric and Julie Oligschlaeger, parents of Cpl. Chad Oligschlaeger, organized a Memorial Day picnic to honor their son, who was found dead in May 2008 on a Marine base in California.

The Moving Wall, a half-size figure of the Vietnam Memorial Wall found in Washington D.C., is coming to Cathedral City today.

When: 9 a.m. today Where: Desert Memorial Park Cemetery, 31-705 Da Vall Drive, Cathedral City.

The rapid spread of swine flu from Mexico surprised Pentagon officials, who had been focused on a possible Asian-borne pandemic in a response plan that would give the military a last-resort role in helping to impose quarantines and border restrictions.Drafted and overhauled several times in recent years, the military's closely guarded plan for an ...