... Lance Corp. Charlie Duggan Jr., 21, of Baldwinsville, N.Y. The Marines trained for months in the heat of the Mojave desert for the deployment, and many appeared happy to be here. At one point Thursday, some 50 Marines were relaxing in ...

... finally directed shuttle commander Scott Altman to head to California. The shuttle's twin sonic booms rocked the Mojave Desert as it swooped out of a dazzling morning sky. Out on the runway after landing, Altman reflected on how long it had ...

... and Nevada. This area of the Mojave Desert seems perfect for solar power ... hot and flat and vast. What the Mojave Desert doesn't have is water. Most ... system, but CSP plants in the Mojave Desert face an obvious problem: It ...

... broke. They're embarrassed. Some of them are mad." He saw this cactus-and-sagebrush-studded town in the Mojave Desert, 70 miles north of Los Angeles, fill up with tile-roofed houses with swimming pools and four-car garages. He ...

... Supervisor Michael Antonovich making the first week in March No Cussing Week. That would mean no blue language from the Mojave desert, where it gets hot as $& in the summer, to the Pacific Ocean, where on a winter's day it can get colder and nastier ...

... of the tornadoes," said Gary Madaus, 44, who moved to Foley from California after living much of his life in the Mojave Desert. "Some people don't have choices. You have to go where you can make the mortgage payments." Lifelong resident ...

... to medical studies. The green and brown reptiles, which can live to be 80 or 100 years old, live primarily in the Mojave Desert. "They represent a natural library of information about life," Tracy said. "It's important biologically for ...

... dunes observed by the missions to Mars in the 1970s, the new images show smaller dunes, much like those found in the Mojave Desert. Detailed close-ups of the dunes look like a Japanese stone garden, with precise, wind-blown patterns etched ...

... fire in the same forest burned 1,523-acres but wasn't threatening structures. A 3,600-acre blaze in the Mojave Desert hills west of Palmdale was fully contained by Monday night, said Jim Crawford, spokesman with the Los Angeles County ...

... home 30 miles from the epicenter. Amtrak's Southwest Chief en route from Chicago to Los Angeles derailed in the Mojave Desert near Ludlow, more than 125 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The passenger cars remained upright. Four of the 155 ...