SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on May 17, 2024, entitled "Average Energy Prices, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim - April 2024": * * * Gasoline prices averaged $5.398 a gallon in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim area in April 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that area gasoline prices were   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on May 17, 2024, entitled "Average Energy Prices, San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward - April 2024": * * * Gasoline prices averaged $5.621 a gallon in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward area in April 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that area gasoline prices were hi  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on May 17, 2024, entitled "Average Energy Prices, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue - April 2024": * * * Gasoline prices averaged $4.870 a gallon in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area in April 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that area gasoline prices were similar to las  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release: David DePape was sentenced today to 360 months in prison following his conviction on assault and attempted kidnapping charges in connection with his Oct. 28, 2022, intrusion into the home of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Cha  more

SAN DIEGO, California, May 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: James Jason Hendershaw of San Diego was charged in an indictment unsealed this week with distributing the fentanyl and methamphetamine that resulted in the death of a 20-year-old San Diego resident. The Oceanside Police Department and Oceanside Fire Department responded to a 911 call a few minutes after 6 a.m. on January 10, 2019. When they arrived, they f  more

SAN DIEGO, California, May 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: Fernando Castro Bazan, a Los Angeles-based drug trafficker, was sentenced in federal court today to 12 years in prison for his leadership role in a drug trafficking organization that employed drivers as young as 18 years old to import large quantities of methamphetamine into the United States from Mexico in the gas tanks of rental cars. Castro Bazan, also   more

OAKLAND, California, May 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release: Six defendants, including a former IRS revenue officer and his brother, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 12 to 30 months following their convictions on charges that they fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey; I  more

MONTEREY, California, May 18 -- The Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security issued the following story: An expert panel explored what government agencies have thus far failed to learn and what lessons need to be learned about preparing for crises that could help with recovery during the Center for Homeland Defense and Security's April Alumni Hour on Thursday, April 18. The Alumni Hour was called "What We Haven't Learned About Rebuilding Our Communities After Crises  more

MONTEREY, California, May 18 -- The Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security issued the following story: Major Dillon Mathies (Emergence Program Cohort 2301) is ready to recruit more members: not just as a Recruiting Company Commander for the Louisiana National Guard (LANG), but also for the Center for Homeland Defense and Security's Emergence Program. He hopes that by sharing his experience and implementing his Change Initiative, more members of his organization wil  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * DePape Attempted to Kidnap Nancy Pelosi and Assaulted Paul Pelosi on Account of Her Official Duties as Then-Speaker of the House of Representatives * * * David DePape, 44, of Richmond, California, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison and five years of supervised release, following his conviction on assault and attempted kidnapping charges in connection with his Oct. 28, 2022, intrusion into   more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A federal grand jury in San Diego returned a two-count indictment charging former San Diego Sheriff's Deputy Aaron Russell for fatally shooting Nicholas Bils on May 1, 2020. Russell is charged with depriving Bils of his right to be free from officers using excessive force and with discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. The indictment alleges that Russell, while acting as a San Diego Sher  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: An indictment was unsealed in the Central District of California yesterday charging two Chinese nationals alleging they played leading roles in a scheme to launder proceeds from cryptocurrency investment scams. Daren Li, 41, a dual citizen of China and St. Kitts and Nevis, and a resident of China, Cambodia, and the United Arab Emirates, was arrested on April 12 at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta   more

LIVERMORE, California, May 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Three new systems currently or soon-to-be sited at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on Monday debuted on the latest Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world, including the first portion of the exascale machine El Capitan. Unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, the June 2024 Top500 lists thr  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: PUBLIC NOTICE SANTA NELLA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announces continued public negotiation sessions with the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority for an Operations Agreement and Cost Share Agreement for the B.F. Sisk Dam and Reservoir Expansion Project, located on the west side of California's Central Valley near Los Banos. Reclamation and SLDMWA are partner  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release on May 16, 2024: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a decision and order against Scott Alan Sanders, doing business as S.A.S. Dairy, doing business as Sanders Family Cattle Sales and Cathryn R. Sanders, doing business as Fire Lake Jerseys of California, on April 23, 2024, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. An investigation by USD  more