WASHINGTON, April 9 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on April 8, 2024, from Economics Daily: * * * In February 2024, Ames, Iowa, had the lowest unemployment rate, 1.9 percent, among metropolitan areas. The next lowest rate was in Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont, 2.0 percent. El Centro, California, had the highest rate, 17.2 percent. * * * Chart: Metropolitan area unemployment rates, February 2024, not seasonally adjusted  more

OAKLAND, California, April 9 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today sent a letter to Modesto Pregnancy Center (the Center), also known as Personal Health Now, demanding that the entity substantiate its claims that it provides medically accurate and unbiased sexual education to public school students. The Center currently provides sexual education curriculum to Modesto City Schools District and adve  more

SAN DIEGO, California, April 9 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta, together with local and federal law enforcement partners, received a briefing on fentanyl trafficking and toured the California-Mexico border. Over the last four years, seizures of fentanyl at the California's border with Mexico have skyrocketed, from 4,790 pounds in 2020 to 27,000 pounds in 2023. During this time frame, between 47 an  more

OAKLAND, California, April 9 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: Leading a multistate coalition of 17 attorneys general and the city of New York, California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Friday filed a motion to intervene on behalf of the state of California and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s final particulate m  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 9 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: The Department of Health Care Access and Information and the California Health Facilities Financing Authority approved Madera Community Hospital for a key $57 Million no-interest loan through the Distressed Hospital Loan Program - established by Governor Newsom in partnership with the Legislature to help hospitals in severe financial stress stay open and keep crucial medical c  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 9 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release: As part of the California Jobs First initiative, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that the California Film Commission awarded $152 million in tax credits to 12 television projects - one relocating series, three recurring television series, and eight new television series - through its Film and Television Tax Credit Program. WHAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM SAID: "From bringing Fallout home to keepin  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 5 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following Order of Dismissal (Case No. 24-04-003): * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA William Wall, Complainant, vs. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (U39E), Defendant. ORDER OF DISMISSAL Upon the joint stipulated request of the Complainant William Wall and Defendant Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Complaint 24-01-021 is dismissed without prejudice under  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 5 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following executive order of dismissal (Case No. 24-04-002): * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Diane Scalice, Complainant, vs. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (U39E), Defendant. EXECUTIVE ORDER OF DISMISSAL Upon written and unopposed request of all parties, Case 23-10-016 is dismissed without prejudice under Public Utilities Code Section 308 and Rule 4.5, effec  more

OAKLAND, California, April 9 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's San Francisco Division issued the following news release: A federal grand jury has charged two defendants with various crimes, including one defendant with extortion and assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Brian M. Clark; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent i  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 9 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded Nevada small businesses of the May 8, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury caused by severe winter storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides in Lyon County that occurred March 8 - 19, 20  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Naval Postgraduate School issued the following news: Every three months, like a high-tech pilgrimage, dozens of industry technologists journey from across the nation to a backcountry gathering at Camp Roberts, a U.S. Army National Guard base in southern Monterey County, California. They bring cutting-edge equipment of all shapes and sizes, functions and capabilities - and stages of development - for a unique five-day event. They come for the Naval Postgraduate School  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 9 -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. C096274) on April 8, 2024: * * * In the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Third Appellate District CLIFFORD ALAN DILBERT, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. GAVIN NEWSOM, as Governor, etc., Defendant and Respondent. APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sacramento County, Steven M. Gevercer, Judge. Affirmed. Clifford Alan Dilbert, in pro. per., for Plaintiff and Appellant. R  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following article on April 8, 2024: * * * New statistical-modeling workflow may help advance drug discovery and synthetic chemistry * * * By Theresa Duque A new automated workflow developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has the potential to allow researchers to analyze the products of their reaction experiments in real time, a key capabilit  more

LIVERMORE, California, April 9 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced the selection of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) computational mathematician Ulrike Meier Yang as one of the 2024 Class of SIAM Fellows, the highest honor the organization bestows on its members. Yang, who leads the Mathematical Algorithms and Computing group in LLNL's Cente  more

OAKLAND, California, April 9 -- The Metropolitan Transportation Commission issued the following news release: The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) last week approved a $20 million grant to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to help the Resilient State Route 37 partners - which include MTC, Caltrans, the California State Transportation Agency, the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The National Archives and Records Administration issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan announced Dr. Janet Tran's appointment as the new Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, CA, effective June 2, 2024. In this role, Dr. Tran will oversee the planning, directing, and administration of all programs and activities at the Library, the largest and most-visited in the presid  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: As Prepared for Delivery I'd like to begin by speaking about the groundwork that we have laid over the past year. Last April, I outlined our Administration's approach to our economic relationship with China. President Biden and I are clear-eyed about the complexities of this relationship. Our priorities include protecting our national security and that of our allies, advancing an objective of a healt  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 9 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in Alaska following President Biden's federal disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of severe storm, flooding, and landslides on Nov. 20, 2023, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Private nonprofits that prov  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 4:21-cv-06322; N.D. Cal. filed Aug. 17, 2021) involving Matthew Panuwat: * * * On April 5, 2024, after an eight-day jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a verdict in its favor in its case alleging insider trading in violation of the federal securities laws against defendant Matthew Panuwat. The SEC'  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Smithsonian American Art Museum issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: Tess Korobkin is the recipient of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award for her article "Monumental Absence: Augusta Savage's Unbuilt Monuments, 1931-1943," which appeared in the fall 2023 issue (vol. 37, no. 3) of American Art, the museum's peer-reviewed journal for new scholarship. Korobkin's article focuses on sculptor Augusta Savage's proposed  more

SHAW AFB, South Carolina, April 9 -- The U.S. Air Forces Central, the air component of U.S. Central Command, issued the following news: By Senior Airman Kylar Vermeulen, U.S. Air Forces Central Public Affairs Shots ring out, a unit is pinned down in a firefight. The mountainous terrain and enemy fire make it difficult for personnel to exit the hot zone. Multiple casualties are in desperate need of medical attention. Broken radio chatter fills the air throughout the chaos. MRAPs can't make it   more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, April 9 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: Military officials from the U.S. and China met this week for working-level talks focused on ensuring safe and professional air and naval interactions between their forces. The two-day discussions, held in Honolulu April 3-4, marked the resumption of the Military Maritime Consultative Agreement Working Group, a series of annual operational safety dial  more