SACRAMENTO, California, June 12 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Sacramento District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District is the recipient of the National Academy of Construction's 2024 Recognition of Special Achievement Award for their work on the Isabella Dam Safety Modification Project at Isabella Lake. "The NAC is thrilled to select the Isabella Dam Safety Modification Project for our third annual Recognition of Special Achievement Awar  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on June 10, 2024, from Economics Daily: * * * Among large metropolitan areas that are divided into metropolitan divisions, growth in nonfarm payroll employment over the year ended April 2024 ranged from 0.1 percent in the Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, Massachusetts-New Hampshire; Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, Michigan; and San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, California, metropolitan areas t  more

SAN DIEGO, California, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: James Soriano of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to multiple bribery conspiracies, admitting that while he was a public official at Naval Information Warfare Center in San Diego, he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from defense contractors in the form of free meals, tickets to premier sporting events, jobs for family a  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release: Gabriel Adrien Lobe Diop, 35, a French national previously residing in Fremont and Agoura Hills, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution for nine counts of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. "It took a re  more

SAN DIEGO, California, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: Jesse Sanders of Oceanside was sentenced in federal court to 6.5 years in prison for selling the fentanyl powder that resulted in the fatal overdose of a 29-year-old active-duty U.S. Marine. According to the plea agreement, Sanders admitted that she arranged a meeting with the Marine and delivered a small plastic bag of fentanyl to the victim on January 2  more

MONTEREY, California, June 12 -- The Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security issued the following story: Growing up in Romania under the regime of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Dr. Florina Cristiana Matei learned firsthand what it was like to live in a surveillance state where intelligence services acted as what she called the "chief prop of the regime--always watching, and serving a small group of people" on behalf of the state instead of the broader societ  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A man who conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced today to more than six years in federal prison. Alan Sanchez, age 32, from San Jacinto, California, received the prison term after an October 23, 2023 guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings showed that Sanc  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 12 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Los Angeles District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District has approved a proposal to temporarily extend the amount of time the Salt River Project can hold water in a portion of the Flood Control Space at Roosevelt Dam in Arizona from 20 to 120 days. This change will allow farms and communities downstream to use the water and reduce releases of floodwater from the dam into th  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 12 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in Idaho following President Biden's federal disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of the severe storm, flooding, landslides and mudslides that occurred April 14 15, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Adminis  more