SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release on April 25, 2024: An indictment was unsealed charging Chinese nationals, Han Li, 44, also known as "Anson" Li, and Lin Chen, 64, with crimes related to a conspiracy to illegally export U.S technology to prohibited end users in China, in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ("IEEPA") and Export Administration Regulations ("EAR")  more

SAN DIEGO, California, April 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release on April 25, 2024: Scott Anthony Sargent of San Diego appeared in federal court today to face charges that he distributed the fentanyl that resulted in the deaths of two victims in North Park in 2022. During the same incident, Sargent and another person also overdosed but survived. Sargent is also charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and methamp  more

SAN DIEGO, California, April 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release on April 25, 2024: Katherine Lu Acquista, former Director of Operations and Accounting for the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that she stole more than $400,000 from the non-profit for her personal benefit. The Economic Development Corporation, known as EDC, works to maximize San Diego'  more

EL SEGUNDO, California, April 26 -- Peterson and Schriever Space Force Base issued the following news: By Brad Smith, Space Systems Command Public Affairs Space Systems Command's personnel are connected by a common purpose, far greater than any of the individuals that make up the organization, its commanding officer told a capacity crowd of several hundred people at a morning event, April 18, at Los Angeles Air Force Base. "One of our four 'Guardian Ideals' is connection - character, connecti  more

EL SEGUNDO, California, April 26 -- The U.S. Space Force issued the following news: By Brad Smith, Space Systems Command Public Affairs Space Systems Command's personnel are connected by a common purpose, far greater than any of the individuals that make up the organization, its commanding officer told a capacity crowd of several hundred people at a morning event, April 18, at Los Angeles Air Force Base. "One of our four 'Guardian Ideals' is connection - character, connection, commitment, and  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: --The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced Judge R. Gary Klausner of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered a consent order against (Red Rock), (Kelly), and (Spencer) on April 23. The order finds the defendants liable for making fraudulent misrepresentations to customers and rendering unlawful investment advice in connection with the   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 26 (TNSres) -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, a federal district bank, issued the following news release on April 25, 2024: The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (Bank) today announced its unaudited first quarter 2024 operating results. Net income for the first quarter of 2024 was $124 million, a decrease of $71 million compared with net income of $195 million for the first quarter of 2023. Net income for the first quarter of 2023 included $4  more

LIVERMORE, California, April 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: As a grid-scale energy storage system, flow batteries have gained increasing attention as a means to address the challenges associated with fluctuations and intermittency in renewable energy sources. Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) have emerged as promising solutions for stationary grid energy storage due to their high efficiency, scalability, safe  more

LIVERMORE, California, April 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) Pandora SmallSat mission recently passed NASA's critical design review: a major milestone for the mission to continue its journey toward launch. The Pandora SmallSat mission will study planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, and their stars. "This is a major milestone for the mission and a hu  more

LIVERMORE, California, April 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have achieved a milestone in accelerating and adding features to complex multi-physics simulations run on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), a development that could advance high performance computing and engineering. As LLNL readies for El Capitan, the National Nuclear Security Administration's  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57078) involving Testing Engineers Inc., Concord, California: * * * Rep Org: California Radiation Control Prgm Licensee: Testing Engineers, Inc. Region: 4 City: Concord State: CA License #: 3691-07 Agreement: Y NRC Notified By: K. Arunika Hewadikaram HQ OPS Officer: Ernest West Notification Date: 04/16/2024 Notification Time: 15:57 [ET] Event Date: 04/13/2024 Event Time: 00:00 [PD  more

SEATTLE, Washington, April 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington issued the following news release: A federal grand jury in Seattle has indicted four people for a conspiracy to smuggle non-citizens across the northern border for profit, announced U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. The group has been connected to two smuggling episodes in November and December 2023. The four named in the indictment were arrested Seattle, Chicago, and Santa Rosa, California. The  more