Five were arrested and six victims were found in a Southern California desert. Officers believe the homicides are linked to a marijuana dispute in San Bernardino County. A decision is made about the U.S. response to the drone strike that killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan. New details emerge on a fatal shooting that killed […]
The Nova music festival in the western Negev Desert in Southern Israel—described as a celebration of unity and love—was the site of some of the worst violence of the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7. Daniel Monaghan spoke with two of the survivors.
DAKAR, Senegal—The bodies of 27 migrants including four children have been found in the Chadian desert, the International Organization for Migration said on Dec. 13, adding that it is “shocked and saddened” by the discovery. The migrants left in a pick-up truck nearly a year and a half ago from Moussoro, a town in west-central […]
Over 7 million people are under flash flood watches across the Desert Southwest and the Rocky Mountains as a plume of moisture moves in from the Pacific. “Tropical moisture will surge northward over the Southwest into parts of the Great Basin/Central Rockies through Thursday,” the Weather Prediction Center said Wednesday. This influx of moist air […]
Sixty-two years ago, a school teacher looking for rocks in an Arizona desert made a horrific discovery: the burned remains of a young girl. Her identity was a mystery and investigators called her “Little Miss Nobody.” For decades, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in Prescott, Arizona, along with the National Center for Missing & Exploited […]
New satellite images reveal mock-ups of U.S. naval vessels in a desert in western China. The structures, designed to appear as an American aircraft carrier and destroyers, are likely intended to be used as targets in military training.
YUCCA VALLEY, Calif.—Searchers in Southern California have found a body in the Yucca Valley desert, two months after Lauren Cho disappeared in the area. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced Sunday that the human remains were found in rugged terrain in the open desert on Saturday. Now the coroner’s office is working to identify […]
SALT LAKE CITY—New clues have surfaced in the disappearance of a gleaming monolith in Utah that seemed to melt away as mysteriously as it appeared in the red-rock desert—though it’s no longer the only place where a strange structure has come and gone. A Colorado photographer told KSTU-TV that he saw four men come to […]
SALT LAKE CITY—Deep in the Mars-like landscape of Utah’s red-rock desert lies a mystery: A gleaming metal monolith in one of the most remote parts of the state. The smooth, tall structure was found during a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah, officials said Monday. A crew from the Utah Department of Public […]
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—Greed, debt, and a gambling problem drove a Southern California man to kill his business partner’s family with a sledgehammer and bury their bodies in the desert, prosecutors said on Jan. 7. But the defense said authorities are charging the wrong man and the real culprit is another business partner. Opening arguments were held […]
