EDWARDS AFB, California, March 28 -- The U.S. Air Force's Edwards Air Force Base issued the following news: By Giancarlo Casem, 412th Test Wing Public Affairs Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, commander, Air Force Materiel Command, his wife Dede Richardson, and AFMC Command Chief Master Sgt. James Fitch visited Edwards Air Force Base, California, March 26. The AFMC command team received an orientation, met with Airmen and learned about the base's unique capabilities, key initiatives and missions that   more

OAKLAND, California, March 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release: David Allen Carrier was sentenced to eleven months in prison for making voicemail threats to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey, Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") Special Agent in Charge Robert K Tripp, and United States Secret Service ("US  more

LOS ANGELES, California, March 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on March 27, 2024: A former deputy mayor and long-time Los Angeles city official was found guilty by a jury today of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribe money and facilitating illicit payoffs from property developers to then-Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar as part of a long-running conspiracy that corrupted the approval of city real est  more

FRESNO, California, March 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on March 27, 2024: Michael Roy Anglin, 22, of Wofford Heights, entered a guilty plea today to distributing explosives to a non-licensed person, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, in May 2023, Vigneault and Michael Roy Anglin, 21, of Wofford Heights, sold and delivered six full boxes and one partial box of Hydromite 880,   more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: * * * Funds services in Lassen, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Tehama, Trinity counties * * * The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the incremental award of more than $2.9 million to California to continue supporting disaster-relief employment and employment and training services for residents as the state continues to recover from the wildfires tha  more

LIVERMORE, California, March 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently hosted its 7th annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference for data scientists, industry professionals, recent graduates and others interested in the field. As an independent satellite of the global WiDS conference celebrating International Women's Day, the Livermore hybrid event was held to highli  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center issued the following feature story on March 27, 2024: * * * A California whaler sent his manuscript to the Smithsonian, but it ended up elsewhere. * * * The scientist who first named different species of killer whales on the West Coast of North America probably never saw one. The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution had invited Edward Drinker Cope to review a manuscr  more

MENLO PARK, California, March 28 (TNSres) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news brief on March 27, 2024: * * * In a new study, SLAC researchers suggest a small-scale solution could be the key to solving a large-scale mystery. * * * By Kimberly Hickok Ever since its discovery, dark matter has remained invisible to scientists, despite the launch of multiple ultra-sensitive particle detector experiments around the world over several decades. Now, physicists at  more

WEST POINT, New York, March 28 -- The U.S. Military Academy issued the following news: West Point regrets to announce the loss of Cadet Havin Morris, 21, from Pleasanton, California, Monday, March 25, while on leave in Florida. "Cadet Morris was a valued member of the Corps of Cadets, committed to serving his country as an Army Officer. The entire West Point community offers our heartfelt condolences to the Morris family," said West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland. According to th  more