BURBANK, California, Feb. 29 -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, issued the following news release: "Will Trent" (7.68 million Total Viewers and 0.80 rating among AD18-49 in MP+3): The second season premiere of "Will Trent" delivered a multiplatform series high in Total Viewers (7.68 million) after three days of viewing on ABC, Hulu and digital platforms. The sophomore ABC drama grew over its January 2023 series debut by 5% (7.68 million vs. 7.34 million) and over its freshman season average by  more

BURBANK, California, Feb. 29 -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: Jon Batiste, Becky G, Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell, Scott George and the Osage Singers, and Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson will perform this year's nominated songs on the 96th Oscars(R), executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producers Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan announced today. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 96th Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcas  more

RIVERSIDE, California, Feb. 29 -- Bourns, a manufacturer and supplier of electronic components, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: Bourns, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of electronic components for power, protection, and sensing solutions, today introduced a new single channel basic insulation transformer with a planar structure optimized for Battery Management System (BMS) applications. Bourns(R) Model SM91801AL is the next 'first to market' BMS signal planar trans  more

BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, Feb. 29 (TNSres) -- Bryn Mawr College issued the following news: * * * The Effects of Paid Family Leave--Does it Help Fathers' Health, Too? (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-024-00994-0) Author: Jiyoon Kim Source: J Popul Econ 37, 19 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-024-00994-0 Publication Type: Journal Article Abstract: I investigate the effects of California's paid family leave (CA-PFL) program, the first state-mandated paid leave available   more

PASADENA, California, Feb. 28 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Jellyfish can't do much besides swim, sting, eat, and breed. They don't even have brains. Yet, these simple creatures can easily journey to the depths of the oceans in a way that humans, despite all our sophistication, cannot. But what if humans could have jellyfish explore the oceans on our behalf, reporting back what they find? New research conducted at Caltech aims to make that a reality throu  more

SAN JOSE, California, Feb. 29 -- Cadence Design Systems, a provider of electronic design automation and semiconductor intellectual property, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: * * * Highlights: * Single DSPs for embedded vision, radar, lidar and AI processing boost performance while providing significant area, power and cost savings * New radar accelerator provides a highly programmable hardware solution for offloading 4D imaging radar workloads, increasing performance * De  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 29 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Kaina Pereira, of Elk Grove, has been appointed Executive Director of the California Workforce Development Board. Pereira has been Senior Advisor of Business Development at the Governor's Office of Business and Economic and Development since 2020 and served in several roles there from 2018 to 2020, including De  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 29 (TNSres) -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release: After receiving California's largest-ever single investment to combat organized retail crime, law enforcement agencies across the state report they've already used the money to make an initial 900+ arrests and will hire more police officers. The $267 million state investment -- which is a signature part of Governor Newsom's Real Public Safety Plan -- was distributed to 55 cities and c  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 28 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following decision granting compensation (Agenda ID No. 22378) on Feb. 26, 2204. Here are excerpts: * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Order Instituting Rulemaking to Further Develop a Risk-Based Decision-Making Framework for Electric and Gas Utilities. DECISION GRANTING COMPENSATION TO THE PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION FOR SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO DECISIO  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 28 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following decision granting compensation (Case No. 24-02-037) on Feb. 26, 2024: Here are excerpts: * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Application of San Diego Gas & Electric Company (U902M) to Update Rate Design to Include a Residential Untiered Time-of-Use Rate with a Fixed Charge. DECISION GRANTING COMPENSATION TO THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK FOR SUBSTANTIAL CONT  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 28 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following decision (Agenda ID No. 22382) on Feb. 26, 2024: * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Application of Southern California Regional Rail Authority for authority to construct a pedestrian underpass grade separation for the Simi Valley Double Track Project on the Metrolink Ventura Subdivision at Mile Post 438.08 (Proposed CPUC Number 101VE-438.08-BD and USDOT N  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 28 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following order of dismissal (Case No. 24-02-052) on Feb. 27, 2024: * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA S&T Mutual Water Company (CA4000523), Complainant, vs. Golden State Water Company (U133W), Defendant. ORDER OF DISMISSAL On December 18, 2023, Golden State Water Company (Defendant) filed a motion to dismiss the Complaint with prejudice stating that the Complain  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 28 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following proposed decision (No. 21-10-002) on Feb. 26, 2024: * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Order Instituting Rulemaking to Oversee the Resource Adequacy Program, Consider Program Reforms and Refinements, and Establish Forward Resource Adequacy Procurement Obligations. DECISION DENYING PETITION FOR MODIFICATION OF DECISION 23-06-029 BY THE CALIFORNIA LARGE ENERGY  more

ARCATA, California, Feb. 29 (TNSres) -- The California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt issued the following news: * * * For thousands of years, humans have attempted to give new life to the dead. Student interns in Cal Poly Humboldt's Biological Anthropology Research Center are doing just that by reimagining the faces of those who have passed. * * * As part of the center's 3D Facial Reconstruction Project, the students are practicing the science and art of forensic facial reconstructio  more

PASADENA, California, Feb. 28 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: On Saturday, February 17, Caltech students and staff represented the Institute with a float in the 42nd annual Pasadena Black History Month parade. Led by undergraduates in the Black Student Union (BSU), participants also included members from graduate student group Black Scientists and Engineers of Caltech (BSEC), staff group Black Ladies Association of Caltech (BLAC), and Caltech's mascot, Bucky  more

COSTA MESA, California, Feb. 29 (TNSres) -- Experian, an information services company, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: In a move towards greater transparency and responsible credit reporting in the buy now, pay later (BNPL) industry, Experian(R) today announced it will now include "pay-in-4" BNPL loan information from Apple Pay Later on consumers' credit reports, making Apple the first major BNPL provider to fully furnish "pay-in-4" loan information and payment history direc  more

ANAHEIM, California, Feb. 29 -- GE Aerospace, a subsidiary of General Electric, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: GE Aerospace today announced Henley Air as the launch customer for the Rotor Analysis Diagnostic System Next Generation (RADS-NG). The system will be used across Henley Air's fleet of helicopters including the Bell 222 UT, Bell 206 and 206L, Bell 407, Dauphin AS 365, and Augusta 119 MK11. "The RADS-NG will differentiate Henley Air as a leader in cutting edge vibra  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 28 -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. F086179) on Feb. 27, 2024: * * * In the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fifth Appellate District THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ARMONDO LOPEZ, Defendant and Appellant. OPINION APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Tulare County. Nathan G. Leedy, Judge. John F. Schuck, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorn  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 28 -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. G063090) on Feb. 27, 2024: * * * In the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ROYCE LANELE ROBINSON, Defendant and Appellant. OPINION Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Riverside County, Samuel Diaz, Jr., Judge. Affirmed. Heather L. Beugen, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for D  more

SANTA ROSA, California, Feb. 29 -- Keysight Technologies, a global electronic measurement technology and market solutions provider, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) has entered the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) infrastructure ecosystem with the introduction of the Keysight AI Data Center Test Platform, designed to accelerate innovation in AI / ML network validation and optimization. The solution significantly i  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Feb. 29 -- Occidental College issued the following news: An Occidental alumna from the class of 2004, West is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir "Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman" and the essay collections "Shit, Actually" and "The Witches Are Coming." She is co-host of the NPR podcast "Text Me Back." Her work has also appeared in This American Life, the New York Times, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel and others. Lindy was a writer and e  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Feb. 29 -- National University issued the following news on Feb. 28, 2024: National University (NU) -- a nonprofit Minority Serving Institution (MSI) that serves 50,000 degree-seeking students and 80,000 workforce and professional development students annually -- today announced that Kim Folsom, a member of NU's Board of Trustees, has been selected as one of Girl Scouts San Diego's Cool Women of 2024. Folsom founded Founders First Capital Partners in San Diego in 2015 to  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 29 -- Ogletree Deakins, a law firm, issued the following news release: Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome Richard Rahm as a shareholder in the firm's San Francisco office. Rahm joins Ogletree Deakins from Littler Mendelson, where he was a shareholder and served as co-chair of the firm's Transportation Industry Practice Group. For more than 30 years, Rahm has counseled and represented  more

IRVINE, California, Feb. 29 -- Allied Universal, a security and facility services company that provides smart technology to deliver solutions to businesses, issued the following news release: Allied Universal(R), the world's leading security and facility services provider, has been selected by the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) to provide traffic management services at Orlando International Airport (MCO), the seventh busiest airport in the U.S. and the busiest in Florida. Allied Univ  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Feb. 28 -- Paul Hastings, a law firm, issued the following news: Paul Hastings (Europe) LLP advised Golub Capital as sole lender on a senior credit facility to support Thoma Bravo's take-private acquisition of German company EQS Group, a leading international cloud provider in corporate compliance, investor relationships, and sustainability reporting. Proceeds of the transaction will be used to fund future growth initiatives and provide capital for potential add-on ac  more

BURBANK, California, Feb. 29 -- The Walt Disney Company issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: Reliance Industries Limited ("RIL"), Viacom 18 Media Private Limited ("Viacom18") and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) ("Disney") today announced the signing of binding definitive agreements to form a joint venture ("JV") that will combine the businesses of Viacom18 and Star India. As part of the transaction, the media undertaking of Viacom18 will be merged into Star India Private Limi  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 29 (TNSres) -- Salesforce, a customer relationship management company, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the #1 AI CRM, today announced results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2024 ended January 31, 2024. * Fourth Quarter Revenue of $9.29 Billion, up 11% Year-Over-Year ("Y/Y"), up 10% in Constant Currency ("CC") * Current Remaining Performance Obligation of $27.6 Billion, up 12% Y/Y, up 13% CC * FY24  more

LA JOLLA, California, Feb. 29 (TNSres) -- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies issued the following news release: * * * Salk scientists create human brain organoid model with abundant astrocytes to study stress and inflammation in neurological diseases like Alzheimer's * * * The brain is typically depicted as a complex web of neurons sending and receiving messages. But neurons only make up half of the human brain. The other half--roughly 85 billion cells--are non-neuronal cells called g  more

SANTA CLARA, California, Feb. 29 -- NVIDIA, a designer of graphics processing units for the gaming, cryptocurrency and professional markets, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), Hugging Face, and NVIDIA today announced the release of StarCoder2, a family of open-access large language models for code generation that sets new standards for performance, transparency, and cost-effectiveness. StarCoder2 was developed in partnership with the BigCode Community,   more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, California, Feb. 29 -- Cuesta College issued the following news release: Cuesta College, in partnership with the Cuesta College Library, Cuesta College Student Health Services, and San Luis Obispo County Behavioral Health, proudly announces the debut of The Human Library(R) on its San Luis Obispo campus. The Human Library(R) started in Denmark over 20 years ago and has grown to be a global movement to challenge stereotypes and prejudices through meaningful dialogue in a safe an  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Feb. 29 -- LPL Financial LLC, a company that provides support from independent financial advisors to financial institutions, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: LPL Financial LLC announced today that attorneys Eleonora Yonge and Joel Spencer have been selected as 2024 Fellows for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). LCLD Fellows learn about the essential role individuals with different backgrounds play in contributing to corporate success, exp  more

IRVINE, California, Feb. 29 (TNSres) -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release: * * * UCI biologists highlight critical link between drought, wildfires and coastal ecosystem transformations * * * In a study recently published in the journal Ecology, University of California, Irvine scientists uncover the intricate dance between drought, wildfires and invasive species in Southern California's coastal sage scrub ecosystems. Titled "Long-term drought promo  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 29 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Francisco campus issued the following news release: * * * Scientists link disruption of a sensitive eye reflex to profound autism, creating opportunities for faster diagnosis and new treatment. * * * Scientists at UC San Francisco may have discovered a new way to test for autism by measuring how children's eyes move when they turn their heads. They found that kids who carry a variant of a gene that is associated  more

MARINA DEL REY, California, Feb. 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, a component of the Viterbi School of Engineering, issued the following news: * * * EPISODE 16 | ISI's Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Julie Jiang * * * Adam Russell, AI/nthropologist and Director of the AI Division at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI), is on a journey to help build a better wor  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Feb. 29 -- The University of San Diego issued the following news release: The University of San Diego welcomes Kimya Massey as Associate Vice President and Executive Director of Athletics. Massey, who takes over for Interim Director of Athletics and Vice President for Operations and Chief Operating Officer Ky Snyder, comes to the University of San Diego from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon where he currently serves as Deputy Athletic Director and Chief Operat  more

PASADENA, California, Feb. 28 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Why did Albert Einstein decide to take a monthlong journey from Berlin to Pasadena to visit Caltech in 1930? On Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. PT in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium, Diana K. Buchwald, Robert M. Abbey Professor of History, will share insights into Einstein's scientific work and private life during the late 1920s and the early 1930s, when the physicist came to Caltech for thre  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 29 -- The Wisconsin Democratic Party issued the following news on Feb. 28, 2024: Today, Wisconsin Democrats throughout the state held press conferences highlighting California bank owner Eric Hovde's record of opposing abortion rights and pushing to restrict Wisconsinites' freedom to make their own medical decisions. In Green Bay, Dr. Kristin Lyerly and Dr. Anna Igler, two OB-GYNs on the forefront of the fight to protect reproductive freedom in Wisconsin, talked about   more