WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: An initiative advancing the nation's transportation decarbonization and resilient infrastructure goals Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced $1.7 million in research funding for a Climate Change and Transportation Research Center at the University of California, Davis. The new Center for Emissions Reduction, Resiliency, and Climate Equity in Transportation, established through   more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Tracy Emery Smith, 42, of Valley Springs, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay $901,035 in restitution for COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud and money laundering, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Congress created the PPP in March 2020, as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Econom  more

FRESNO, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Alden Nunez-Rosales, 27, of Fresno, was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, on April 26, 2023, Nunez-Rosales delivered 5,000 fentanyl pills to a person that he believed was a customer but wa  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release: HSQ Technology, A Corporation, a Hayward-based subsidiary of RailWorks Corporation, has agreed to pay $250,000 in penalties to resolve allegations that it knowingly violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment for network communications equipment it provided for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's (VTA) Silicon Vall  more

OAKLAND, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Rambler Gallo was sentenced to serve six months of home confinement and 36 months of probation for intentionally causing damage to the computer network for the Discovery Bay Water Treatment Facility, located in the Town of Discovery Bay, Calif., and thereby threatening public health and safety. Specifically, Gallo intentionally uninstalled the  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Jason Toland, 43, of Wheatland, pleaded guilty today to one count of submitting false claims against the United States related to COVID-19 pandemic tax credits, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, Toland attempted to obtain a total of over $13.4 million in COVID-19 pandemic relief, including by filing m  more

LIVERMORE, California, May 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: When materials are subjected to extreme environments, they face the risk of mixing together. This mixing may result in hydrodynamic instabilities, yielding undesirable side effects. Such instabilities present a grand challenge across multiple disciplines, especially in astrophysics, combustion and shaped charges -- a device used to focus the energy of a det  more

PALO ALTO, California, May 10 -- President Biden issued the following remarks at a campaign reception in a private residence: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Well, Melissa [Marissa] and Zach, thank you very much. I really mean it. And you have such a beautiful family. You really do. Girls, when you get to be teenagers, it gets hard to raise daddies. (Laughter.) We're easy until about age 13, when the boys start showing up. (Laughter.) So, you got to be very patient with daddies. And I told your brothe  more

SANTA ANA, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: A Florida man was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison for helping the perpetrators of the March 2022 firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Orange County construct a Molotov cocktail. Xavier Batten, 21, of Brooksville, Florida, was sentenced by United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney, who also ordered him to pay $1,000 in  more