How do they accept you the way you look, he was once asked. It takes them 5 minutes, he said, and it passes. Because when it came to courage and integrity, he was the model his soldiers' looked up to.

That $30 that might buy a single new shirt at a mall store can purchase an entire outfit here, with enough left over for a couple of books and maybe a small household item. College students furnish ...

Perched at a comfortable 4,000 feet elevation in its namesake mountains, this small community bridges worlds – where the Sierra Nevada meets the Mojave Desert, where old California traditions blend ...