FRESNO, California, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Phillip A. Talbert, issued the following news release: Derrick Gage, 42, of Bakersfield, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance a Drug Trafficking Offense, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, on April 23, 2022, law enforcement officers were on patrol at the Plaza Motel on Union Avenue in Bakersfield when they saw Gage inside a roo  more

FRESNO, California, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Phillip A. Talbert, issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2023: Abraham Eduardo Navarro Mendez, 39, of Bakersfield, Calif., was sentenced today to five years in prison for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, in 2019, agents of Homeland Security Investigations received information that Navarro Mende  more

FRESNO, California, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Phillip A. Talbert, issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2023: Bobby Hood, 65, of Friant, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, in the summer of 2020 law enforcement learned that Mr. Hood was trafficking fentanyl and heroin. Just a few months later, o  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Phillip A. Talbert, issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2023: Esteban Gerardo Ramirez, 32, of San Jose, was sentenced today to eight years and six months in prison for conspiring to possess and distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, between Sept. 13, 2021, and March 8, 2022, Ramirez conspired with his codefendant, Marsha Garma Ph  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 6 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded California small businesses of the Oct. 4, 2023, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury caused by the earthquake in Humboldt County that began Dec. 20, 2022. According to Lusk, small nonfarm businesses, small agricultural coop  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Education Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. A20IL0007) on Aug. 24, 2023, entitled "University of Southern California's Use of Professional Judgment." Here are excerpts: * * * To: Dr. Carol L. Folt, President, University of Southern California Office of the President, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0012 Dear Dr. Folt: Enclosed is our final audit report, "University of Southern California's Use of Professional Judgment," Co  more

EDWARDS AFB, California, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys, Air Force Test Center The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, graduated its Enlisted Test Fundamentals Course on August 25. Though taught shortly in 2012 and 2018, a sustainable course idea was rebirthed in 2019 and came to fruition in 2021 as the Enlisted Test Professionals Course has since evolved in both name and curriculum.   more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 6 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Alex Li, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) summer student in the Computational Chemistry and Materials Science Summer Institute, recently led a study published in the journal Matter to investigate the evolution of plasticity in diamond along different loading orientations and the effects that voids (pores) within the material can have  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2023: A Santa Monica man has agreed to plead guilty to breaking federal law by allowing his cryptocurrency-cash exchange company to help scammers and drug traffickers launder millions of dollars in criminal proceeds through his business, the Justice Department announced today. Charles James Randol, 33, agreed to plead guilty to a single-count info  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2023: A former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy has agreed to plead guilty to a federal felony offense for depriving a 23-year-old man of his civil rights in Compton in 2020, the Justice Department announced today. In a plea agreement filed this morning in federal court, Miguel Angel Vega, 33, of Corona, admitted that he falsely impr  more