JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: By Joe Bela, Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Public Affairs The Air Force Civil Engineer Center has a significant role in climate change initiatives intended to enhance resiliency at Air Force installations by addressing the risks severe weather poses to infrastructure, operational capabilities and readiness. The initiatives were outlined in the Department of the Air Force Climate  more

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, California, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Air Force Beale Air Force Base (9th Reconnaissance Wing) issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Frederick A. Brown Science and technology soared at Beale last week with a visit from a STEM influencer and young minds with a passion for innovation. Students from For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) came to Beale to be a part of FIRST's founder, Dean Kamen's, high altitude flight in a U-2 Dragon Lady and to witne  more

OAKLAND, California, Aug. 8 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: California Attorney General Bonta today announced joining a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief supporting former employees of Saks department stores who were harmed by agreements between Saks and other sellers of luxury brand goods (Brand Defendants) -- including Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Prada -- not to hire former Saks employees. These agreements are  more

OAKLAND, California, Aug. 8 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: Leading a coalition of five attorneys general, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed an amicus letter expressing strong concerns over the amount of money that DuPont and two spin-off companies would pay under a proposed class action settlement with public water providers. While the proposed settlement has been revised in several important ways at the request of sta  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 8 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following statement on Aug. 7, 2023: * * * Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement regarding the deaths of CAL FIRE Assistant Chief Josh Bischof, CAL FIRE Fire Captain Tim Rodriguez, and contract Pilot Tony Sousa, who were killed in a midair collision while engaged in firefighting operations on the Broadway Fire in Riverside County on Sunday: "On behalf of all Californians, our thoughts and heartfelt sy  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, Randy Grossman, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: Andrew R. Haden was sworn in today as Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, one of the busiest federal districts in the nation. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Dana Sabraw administered the oath of office to Haden in the presence of his senior leadership team and a small group of friends and family. Haden is a vete  more

FRESNO, California, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Phillip A. Talbert, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: Alberto Gomez-Santiago, 37, a Mexican national residing in Arvin, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, in March 2021, Gomez delivered for distribution 26 pounds of methamphetamine to co-defendants J  more

MENLO PARK, California, Aug. 8 (TNSres) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * The facility is now steps away from releasing an unprecedented stream of ultra-bright X-rays. * * * After more than a decade of work, electrons are now flying through a new superconducting accelerator at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, preparing to power the world's most powerful X-ray free electron laser. This project - named the Linac  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 8 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Hilmar Cheese Company Inc. for Safe Drinking Water Act violations at its facility in Hilmar, California, located in the San Joaquin Valley. The company will pay a $92,000 penalty for findings of permit violations related to the Underground Injection Control Program. "Facilities that include   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 8 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, a federal district bank, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: Speaking at the 75TH annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) in Houston last week, Teresa Bryce Bazemore, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco), credited the organization with playing a critical role in advancing homeownership for Af  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued the following recall alert on Aug. 5, 2023: Day-Lee Foods Inc., a Santa Fe Springs, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 10,511 pounds of frozen ready-to-eat (RTE) chicken potsticker products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The product labeled as chicken potstickers may actua  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Aug. 8 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: Yesterday in The Washington Post, a new opinion column highlighted Governor Josh Shapiro's approach to governing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with a focus on bringing people together to get things done, delivering results, and demonstrating that government can be a productive force for good. This column comes days after Governor Shapiro signed into law a commonsense, bi  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: The Department of the Interior today announced up to $195 million in funding opportunities available through President Biden's Investing in America agenda to develop a more resilient water supply, support cooperative watershed management and safeguard aquatic ecosystems. The funds come primarily from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's WaterSMART program, as well as from the Inflation Re  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland traveled to Yosemite National Park this weekend as part of a month-long tour to celebrate the historic investments from the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), a bipartisan investment that improves visitor experiences, bolsters climate resilience and invests in the economy by creating good-paying jobs in our national parks, wildlife refuges, recreatio  more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 8 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: Scientists have made the most precise measurements ever of Mars' rotation, for the first time detecting how the planet wobbles due to the "sloshing" of its molten metal core. The findings, detailed in a recent Nature paper, rely on data from NASA's InSight Mars lander, which operated for four years before running out of power during its extended mission in December 2022. To track the planet's spin rate,  more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 8 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news on : Set to launch this fall, NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) project will test how lasers could speed up data transmission far beyond the capacity of current radio frequency systems used in space. What's known as a technology demonstration, DSOC may pave the way for broadband communications that will help support humanity's next giant leap: when NASA sends astronauts to Mars. Th  more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 8 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed its 54th flight on Aug. 3, the first flight since the helicopter cut its July 22 flight short. The 25-second up-and-down hop provided data that could help the Ingenuity team determine why its 53rd flight ended early. Flight 53 was planned as a 136-second scouting flight dedicated to collecting imagery of the planet's surface for the Perseverance Ma  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 8 -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. G060920) on Aug. 7, 2023: * * * IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE GENE MORAN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PRIME HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents. OPINION Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Orange County, Glenda Sanders, Judge. Affirmed. Request for judicial notice granted. Carpenter Law, G  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 8 -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. E079750) on Aug. 7, 2023: * * * In the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. GREGORY VANCE, JR., Defendant and Appellant. OPINION APPEAL from the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. Steven Malone, Judge. Affirmed. Rex Adam Williams, under appointment by the Court of Appeal for Defendant and Appella  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 8:23-cv-01425; C.D. Cal. filed August 7, 2023) involving Q4 Capital LLC, J4 Capital Advisors LLC, Christopher A. Slaga and Hayden F. Greene: * * * SEC Charges Recidivist and Others in Offering Fraud Scheme * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission filed today a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California charging Christopher Slaga and two entities he contro  more

LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: Ensuring the nation's electrical power grid can function with limited disruptions in the event of a natural disaster, catastrophic weather or a manmade attack is a key national security challenge. Compounding the challenge of grid management is the increasing amount of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind that are continually added  more

GULFPORT, Mississippi, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, Darren LaMarca, issued the following news release: A California man was sentenced to 237 months in prison for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Brent Alan Wright, age 50, of Yorba Linda, California, was sentenced on August 3, 2023 in U.S. District  more

GULFPORT, Mississippi, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, Darren LaMarca, issued the following news release: A California man was sentenced to 159 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Cedric Joseph Gaytan, age 63, of Orange, California, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. According to cour  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: The National Park Service (NPS) announced $3.4 million in grants today to 16 Indian Tribes and 28 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation and repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural items as part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). This is the largest amount of funding appropriated for NAGPRA grants since the  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news release: By Mary Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) will launch ComPair aboard a high-altitude balloon from Fort. Sumner, New Mexico Aug. 10. The ComPair mission instrument measures and detects gamma-ray emissions from astrophysical objects. The NRL instrument is one of the four subsystem instru  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations issued the following directive: The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) will launch ComPair aboard a high-altitude balloon from Fort. Sumner, New Mexico Aug. 10. The ComPair mission instrument measures and detects gamma-ray emissions from astrophysical objects. The NRL instrument is one of the four subsystem instruments led by NASA GSFC. The mission name - ComPair - is inspired by the m  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following order (No. 3-21548) on Aug. 7, 2023: * * * In the Matter of CS MANAGER, LLC, SICA WEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC, CIRCLE SQUARED ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS, LLC, JEFFREY C. SICA, and CHERYL LYNNE COSTA, Respondents. ORDER INSTITUTING ADMINISTRATIVE AND CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SECTION 8A OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AND SECTIONS 203(e), 203(f), AND 203(k) OF THE INVESTMENT ADVISERS ACT OF 1940, MAKING FIND  more

SANTA ANA, California, Aug. 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: An Orange County man was sentenced today to life in federal prison for the October 2019 murder of a man whose body was found floating in the Pacific Ocean with bullet and blunt force trauma wounds. Hoang Xuan Le, 42, a.k.a. "Wayne," and "Wangsta," of Fountain Valley, was sentenced by United States District Judge David O. Carter. At the conclusi  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (TNSrep) -- The Veterans Affairs Inspector General issued the following oversight report (No. 22-00231-176) on Aug. 3, 2023, entitled "Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the San Francisco VA Health Care System in California." Here are excerpts: * * * Report Overview This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program (CHIP) report provides a focused evaluation of the quality of care delivered in the inpatient and outpatient settings of th  more