RIVERSIDE, California, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. Attorney for Central District of California, Martin Estrada, issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2023: Three men were arrested today and have been charged in a federal criminal complaint alleging they kidnapped a 17-year-old boy in San Bernardino County and held him for ransom in Santa Maria. Fidel Jesus Patino Jaimes, 22, Jair Tomas Ramos Dominguez, 26, of Santa Maria, and Ezequiel Felix Lopez, 27, all of whom told law enforcement they we  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release on Sept. 22, 2023: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order simultaneously filing and settling charges against Jie "Elaine" Yu of Irvine, California, for engaging in a fictitious sales scheme. The order requires Yu to pay a $300,000 civil monetary penalty, cease and desist from further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations, as charged  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 23 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded Alaska private nonprofit organizations of the Oct. 23 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for property damage caused by flooding that occurred May 12 - June 3. Private nonprofits that provide essential services  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 23 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded small nonfarm businesses in all 58 California counties and neighboring counties in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon of the Nov. 17, 2023, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest lo  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 23 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2023: Director Jeffrey Lusk of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded Texas businesses and residents of the Oct. 23, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for property damage caused by the tornado that occurred on June 15. According to Lusk, businesses of all sizes, most private n  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: The Joint Staff-sponsored Bold Quest joint and multinational demonstration and assessment concluded today in Southern California. Military participants and observers from 17 allies and partner nations gathered to demonstrate and assess technical and procedural means of working together at strategic, operational, and tactical levels across all domains. Live and virtual events included testing sensor to sho  more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 23 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: In about a third of the time it would have taken other NASA Mars rovers, Perseverance recently navigated its way through a field of boulders more than 1,700 feet wide (about a half-kilometer). While planners map out the rover's general routes, Perseverance managed the finer points of navigating the field, nicknamed "Snowdrift Peak," on its own, courtesy of AutoNav, the self-driving system that  more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 23 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: An Independent Review Board (IRB) looked at NASA's current plans and goals of the first mission to return samples from Mars, and NASA is establishing a team to respond. In addition to bringing home the first sample collected from Mars, this highly complex mission would include the first launch from the surface of another planet, as well as the first in-orbit rendezvous at another planet. Mars  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: With NETL support, through the Lab's University Training and Research program, researchers at the University of California, Riverside used advanced computing models that harness machine learning to efficiently reduce impingement in boilers - an innovation that can ensure longer and more efficient service life for power plants and even potentially extend  more

OTAY MESA, California, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Otay Mesa port of entry's cargo facility seized over $5 million worth of liquid methamphetamine and cocaine concealed in two tractor trailers last week. On Sept. 12, at approximately 8:53 p.m., CBP officers encountered a 25-year-old male Mexican citizen driving of a tractor trailer seeking entry i  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 23 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in Arapahoe, Logan, and Washington counties following the amendment to President Biden's Aug. 25, major disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of severe storms, flooding and tornadoes that occurred June 8 - 23, announced Administrator Isabella Casil  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 23 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2023: Today, the U.S. Small Business Administration and Operation HOPE, a key leader assisting individuals with financial literacy, access to capital and financial disaster recovery, announced the opening of their first Business Resource and Assessment Center in Kihei to assist small businesses impacted by the Maui wildfires that began on Aug. 8. T  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 23 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in Missouri following President Biden's federal disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes and flooding that occurred July 29 - Aug. 14, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small   more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 23 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Low-interest federal disaster loans are available to California businesses and residents affected by Tropical Storm Hilary that occurred Aug. 19 - 21, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration. SBA acted under its own authority to declare a disaster in response to a request SBA received from Gov. Gavin Newsom's   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2023: The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that American Infrastructure Funds LLC (AIM), a Foster City, California-based registered investment adviser to private funds, agreed to pay more than $1.6 million to settle charges resulting from its acceleration of portfolio company monitoring fees, for transferring a private fund asset from funds nearing the end of their ter  more

MENLO PARK, California, Sept. 23 (TNSres) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2023: * * * Powerful X-rays generated at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory help researchers shed new light on feather evolution. * * * How similar are dinosaurs to modern birds? This question is at the heart of a new study that examined how proteins found in dinosaur feathers changed over millions of years and under extreme heat. Previous studies suggest th  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's U.S. Space Command issued the following news: Gen. James Dickinson, U.S. Space Command commander, joined the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy Dr. John Plumb, and Mandy Vaughn, CEO and founder of GXO Inc. on a panel to discuss "Commercial Space Power and the Next Space Age" at this year's Tech Crunch Disrupt conference Sept. 19. The three-day conference brought together approximately 11,000 founders, investor  more