VALLEJO, California, April 12 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced that the California Department of Justice (DOJ) has secured a settlement agreement with the city of Vallejo and the Vallejo Police Department (VPD) requiring reforms to VPD's policies and practices. The settlement agreement is the result of the reform work started under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between DOJ an  more

OAKLAND, California, April 12 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced that the California Department of Justice (DOJ) has ended monitoring of the Stockton Unified School District (District) and its Department of Public Safety (Department), concluding the five-year term of the stipulated judgment that addressed system-wide violations of the civil and constitutional rights of Black and Lati  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 12 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Today, Governor Gavin Newsom and Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis announced a request for a Federal Fishery Disaster Declaration to support impacted fishing communities. This request and the recommended season closure will protect salmon populations and support the fishing industry. These actions build on Governor Newsom's Salmon Strategy for a Hotter, Drier Future to a  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 12 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Reinforcing California's commitment to supporting a legal and safe cannabis industry and dismantling the illegal market, today Governor Newsom announced the Governor's Unified Cannabis Enforcement Taskforce (UCETF) seized $53.62 million in illegal cannabis in the first quarter of this calendar year -- including 54,137 unlicensed cannabis plants and 31,866 pounds of unlicense  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 10 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following statement on April 9, 2024: * * * Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement on today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reaffirming California's decades-old authority to set clean vehicle standards: "Today the court sided with common sense and public health against the fossil fuel industry and Republican-led states. This ruling reaffirms California's lon  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 12 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Newsom Administration officials today joined the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians at the groundbreaking of a large-scale solar and long-duration storage microgrid in Corning. The project will sustain tribal operations and relieve pressure on the grid during peak use times with new battery technology that can discharge power for 18 hours. The microgrid project received a $32  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release: Stephen Joseph Crittenden, 44, of Suisun City, pleaded guilty today to bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, Crittenden was a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation correctional officer at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. From 2021 throu  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: * * * Census Bureau Initiatives to Address Persistent Undercount of Children * * * The U.S. Census Bureau today released new experimental estimates showing children ages 0 to 4 were undercounted in the 2020 Census in every state. Additionally, there were undercounts of children ages 0 to 4 in more than 4 out of 5 counties included in this release. The experimental estimates are availa  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following opening statement on April 11, 2024, by Commissioner Caroline D. Pham at the Agriculture Advisory Committee meeting: * * * I want to also recognize the committee's Designated Federal Officer, Swati Shah, and all the staff who worked to make today's meeting possible. I know it's no small task to organize a field event like this. Thanks also to the Advisory Committee's members for taking the time to share your   more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following statement on April 11, 2024, by Ian McGinley, director of the division of enforcement, at the New York City Bar Association Futures and Derivatives Committee conference: * * * It is an honor to deliver today's keynote address, particularly to so many sophisticated members of the derivatives bar. I always appreciate this audience--I can drop "contango" and "backwardation" into speeches without any explanation   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICTOR RODRIGUEZ-GOMEZ, also known as "Calami," 49, of Desert Hot Springs, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 156 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking l  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news brief on April 10, 2024: * * * Company repeatedly cited for multiple worker safety issues * * * Employer name: Trader Joe's Co. Investigation site: 5910 South University Blvd., Greenwood Village, CO 80121 Investigation findings: During a December 2023 inspection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found safety hazards associ  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: * * * Agency continues enforcement campaign against illegal importation of climate super pollutant HFCs * * * Today, April 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), filed a complaint against USA Wholesale, Inc. ("USA Wholesale"), a San Jose corporation which sells engine lubricants, for unlawfully importing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) through the port of Santa Theresa, NM  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a proposed settlement with Shasta-Siskiyou Transport of Redding, Calif. to resolve claims of Clean Water Act (CWA) violations after one of the company's trucks overturned and a fuel product spilled into storm drains in downtown Redding. The fuel reached the Sacramento River. The proposed settlement requires  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: The Biden-Harris Administration today announced nearly $830 million in grant awards for 80 projects nationwide that will help states and local communities save taxpayers money while strengthening surface-transportation systems and making them more resilient to extreme weather events worsened by the climate crisis, flooding, sea-level rise, heat wave  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: The Internal Revenue Service wraps up the 2024 Dirty Dozen campaign with a warning to taxpayers regarding promoters selling bogus tax strategies and fraudulent offshore schemes designed to reduce or avoid taxes altogether. Various fraudulent schemes threatening taxpayers can take different forms, including exploitative agreements related to syndicated cons  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 11 -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. A165646) on April 10, 2024: * * * In the Court of Appeal of the State of California, First Appellate District, Division Three THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. NORMAN ALEXANDER LOZANO, Defendant and Appellant. Norman Alexander Lozano appeals a judgment entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of multiple sexual offenses against two girls, Jane Doe 1 (Doe 1) and Jane Doe 2 (Do  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 11 -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. A167246) on April 10, 2024: * * * In the Court of Appeal of the State of California, First Appellate District, Division Three THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RAFAEL B.D.R., Defendant and Appellant. Defendant Rafael B.D.R. was sentenced to a six-year prison term for committing a lewd act upon a child under the age of 14 (Pen. Code, Sec. 288, subd. (a)), and sending or exhibiting h  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted a California man this week for insider trading. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Shahriyar Bolandian, 35, of Brentwood, Los Angeles, participated in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $650,000 in illicit profits. Between 2012 and 2013, Bolandian received material non-public information about two upcoming corporate acquisitio  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: An indictment was unsealed today charging David Campbell, also known as Viejo Dan and Don David, 57, of Honduras, one of the principal narcotics and weapons suppliers to MS-13 in Honduras, with racketeering, narcotics, and firearms offenses. Campbell was presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn in Manhattan federal court after being extradited yesterday from Honduras.   more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following article on April 11, 2024: * * * A research consortium led by Berkeley Lab, along with three other national labs, will continue to lead a DOE desalination hub to drive innovation for sustainable water security * * * By Lauren Core The National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), which is led by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley L  more

ALBANY, New York, April 12 (TNSres) -- New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: Historic federal pandemic relief funds, though being spent down, continued to boost New York's balance of payments with Washington, according to a report issued today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. In Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2022, New York state generated $361.8 billion in federal taxes and benefited from $383 billion in federal spending. For ever  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) recognized Centennial Innovation awardees during a ceremony on Apr. 8 held at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., for major impacts on national security. The Centennial Innovation Awards honor 28 of the most creative and impactful accomplishments  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following weekly case summary for April 1-5, 2024: * * * Summarized Board Decisions MPStar Professionals, LLC and its alter ego, Cleaning Pros by MPStar Pros, LLC (01-CA-291402; 373 NLRB No. 42) (https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d4583cd324c) Boston, MA, April 2, 2024. The Board granted the General Counsel's Motion for Default Judgment based on the Respondent's failure to file an answer to the complaint. The Bo  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news brief on April 10, 2024: * * * Employer name: Trader Joe's Co. Investigation site: 5910 South University Blvd., Greenwood Village, CO 80121 Investigation findings: During a December 2023 inspection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found safety hazards associated with unsafe forklift operations and lack of training for for  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: A former resident of Oxnard, California, pleaded guilty in federal court on April 10, 2024, to a drug trafficking charge, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Christopher Andrew Salgado, 24, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge W. Scott Hardy to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribut  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued the following news release: Thank you very much for having me here today. It's always great to talk to the people in the trenches, fighting day in and day out for consumers. I'm Seth Frotman, the General Counsel of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As many of you know, the CFPB administers and is the primary enforcer of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). I'd like to   more

PANAMA CITY, Panama, April 12 (TNSres) -- The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute issued the following news on April 11, 2024: In the early morning light just a few miles from the Panama Canal, a colony of army ants march one by one from their nest. They move slowly, even lazily, as if rubbing the sleep from their eyes as they stumble off to their early-morning shifts. Abruptly, their pace quickens, their grogginess replaced with urgency. The day's raid had begun. The name "army ants" refe  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release: A Brentwood man has been found guilty by a jury of participating in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $650,000 in illicit profits, the Justice Department announced today. Shahriyar Bolandian, 35, was found guilty Tuesday of six counts of insider trading. According to court documents and evidence presented at a five-day trial, in 2012 and 2013  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release: A Japanese-language translator was charged today via federal criminal complaint with unlawfully transferring more than $16 million from a Major League Baseball (MLB) player's bank account - without the player's knowledge or permission - to pay off his own substantial gambling debts incurred with an illegal bookmaking operation. Ippei Mizuhara, 39, of Newpor  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release: A woman from the Mid-City area of Los Angeles pleaded guilty today to fraudulently obtaining more than $2 million in COVID-19 government loans and to submitting false claims in an unsuccessful effort to secure from the IRS nearly $1.3 million in pandemic-related tax credits. Casie Hynes, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of false c  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A California man is charged by indictment with a felony and multiple misdemeanor charges related to his conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and those of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Joshua Kaleb Youngerman, 23, of Imper  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news on April 11, 2024: By Jamie Rand, Consultant C5ISC Late last December, in the remote pack ice south of the Antarctic Circle, a crew member aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star suffered a serious injury to his eye. The physician's assistant and the corpsman on the cutter evaluated the injury and determined it was beyond the care they could provide. The isolated ship needed to communicate w  more

RESTON, Virginia, April 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: * * * Migration maps help developers limit impacts on wildlife from infrastructure and assist wildlife managers to conserve big game. * * * A new set of maps that document the movements of ungulates was published today in the fourth volume of the Ungulate Migrations of the Western United States. The maps in this collaborative U.S. Geological  more