SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Sacramento District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued Regional General Permit (RGP) 10, authorizing activities associated with wildfire mitigation that may involve discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States and/or work in or affecting navigable waters of the United States, including wetlands, within the State of California. The issuance of RGP10 authorize  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Phillip A. Talbert, issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2023: Frank Jonathan Guzman, 31, of Stockton, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, between November 2018 and December 2019, Guzman and co-defendant Jose Cruz Ivan Aispur  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration issued the following news release: * * * Investigation finds Environmental Instrumentation Co. abandoned retirement plan in 2002 * * * The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a default judgment to recover $153,768 for four people whose former employer abandoned its employee retirement plan more than two decades ago, leaving no one to administer the plan and authorize distribution of  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Lompoc Valley Medical Center (LVMC), a California Health Care District that operates multiple health care providers, including a hospital and several clinics, in Lompoc, California, has agreed to pay $5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and the California False Claims Act by causing the submission of false claims to California's Medicaid program (Medi-Cal) related to Medic  more

LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 31 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-led project aimed at using computing tools to improve understanding of fusion plasma dynamics was among 12 projects recently awarded funding by the Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate fusion power plant development. The four-year, multi-institutional Advanced Boundary Plasma Dynamics (ABOUND) project w  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: * * * Species remarkably resistant to Mendocino Complex Fire in Northern California * * * During the summer of 2018, the Mendocino Complex Fire ripped through the University of California Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC), transforming the Northern California property's grassy, oak-dotted hillsides into a smoldering, ash-covered wasteland. "It felt like something out of 'The Lord of  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Comptroller of the Currency issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2023: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) will host two workshops in Santa Ana, California, on October 3-4 for directors, senior management, and other key executives of national community banks and federal savings associations. The Compliance Risk: Understanding the Rules workshop on October 3 focuses on the critical elements of an effective com  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- President Biden and Costa Rica President Rodrigo Chaves Robles issued the following remarks on Aug. 29, 2023, ahead of their bilateral meeting: * * * PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, Mr. President, it's great to welcome you back to the White House. It's great to be by your side again. And I -- just over a year ago, in California, we stood together with partners across the region for the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, and you've done an incredible job since   more

SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 31 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in the Burns Paiute Tribe following President Biden's federal disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of severe storm, flooding, landslides and mudslides that occurred June 11 - 12, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Private n  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Aug. 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: Nelson Alexander Flores of Tijuana was sentenced in federal court to 210 months in prison for trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine into the United States from Mexico on behalf of MS-13 street gang and the Mexican Mafia prison gang. According to information presented in court, between 2018 and May 2020, Flores coordinated with and supplied other  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Aug. 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: Zunyu Zhao (also known as Kathy Zhao) and Xionwei Xiao (also known as Luis Xiao) pleaded guilty in federal court this week to a two-count indictment charging them with conspiracy and illegal importation of sea cucumbers. According to the indictment and plea agreement, starting on May 9, 2017, and through February 10, 2019, Zhao and Xiao conspired to illeg  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. Trade and Development Agency issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2023: Today, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency awarded a technical assistance grant to Guatemala's National Secretariat of Science and Technology (Senacyt) to promote rural connectivity and digital literacy. Senacyt selected California-based New Sun Road to carry out the assistance, which will include the installation of women-led solar-powered digital community centers (DCCs)  more