SACRAMENTO, California, June 29 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Sacramento District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District has issued a special use permit to the U.S. Forest Service allowing use of land below Isabella Auxiliary Dam to help speed USFS wildfire response time in the area. The land specified in the permit is immediately downstream of the Auxiliary Dam will be made available starting this week. The central location close to Highw  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: A former Department of Defense civilian employee was sentenced today to one year and eight months in prison for assaulting a U.S. military member in July 2020. U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; Special Agent Andrew D. Fran  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: An Inland Empire pharmacist has been charged with using his Montclair pharmacy to submit more than $300 million in fraudulent Medi-Cal claims for prescription medications that were medically unnecessary, often not provided to patients, and were obtained through the payment of tens of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks, the Justice Depar  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Michael Joseph Taylor, 39, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Daniel J. Calabretta to 17 years and six months in prison to be followed by 20 years of supervised release for distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, in 2022 and 2  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Yohan Murillo-Medina was sentenced today to serve 32 months in prison for possessing fentanyl and methamphetamine with the intent to distribute the drugs in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, announced U.S. Attorney Ismail Ramsey and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Brian Clark. United States Distric  more

LOS ANGELES, June 28 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Los Angeles Division issued the following news release: The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Los Angeles Field Division announced the sentencing of a large-scale fentanyl distributor operating within Ventura, California. Stephen Gregory Reid, 61, aka "Racer," of Ventura, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison. The DEA announcement, made last week, was the pinnacle point of a multi-agency investig  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Naval Postgraduate School issued the following news: By Dan Linehan The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) conducted its spring Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) event in May, with a technological focus on command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) and countermeasures. Held quarterly at the California Army National Guard's Camp Roberts, JIFX offers unparalleled opportunities to conduct applied   more

EDWARDS AFB, California, June 29 -- The U.S. Air Force's Edwards Air Force Base issued the following news: By Giancarlo "Carlo" Casem, 412th Test Wing The 412th Electronic Warfare Group held a change of command ceremony to bid farewell to Col. Jose Gutierrez and welcomed Col. Hans Buckwalter at Edwards Air Force Base, California, June 18. Col. Douglas Wickert, 412th Test Wing Commander, officiated the event that also formally bid farewell to the Gutierrez family. Wickert took time to offer hi  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Institute of Museum and Library Services issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: * * * Information Literacy Initiative Empowers Libraries and Museums to Promote Digital, Financial, and Health Literacy to Serve Communities * * * The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) today released InformationLiteracy.gov, a website with specialized tools and resources designed for library and museum professionals to engage diverse communities in dev  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: A former Department of Defense civilian employee was sentenced today to one year and eight months in prison for assaulting a U.S. military member in July 2020. According to court documents, Gerald Leon Ray III, 27, of Lathrop, California, intentionally struck the victim in the face near Osan Air Base, a U.S. military installation in the Republic of Korea. The assault caused the victim to   more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, June 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota issued the following news release: A Burnsville man has been charged with three counts of wire fraud after defrauding an electronics manufacturing business out of more than $1.2 million, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, between 2019 and 2020, Thomas Thanh Pham, 52, devised a scheme to defraud a California based company of approximately $1.2 million. Pham, who w  more

OXFORD, Mississippi, June 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi issued the following news release: Two Arizona men have been sentenced for trafficking drugs from California into the Northern District of Mississippi. According to court records, Enrique Rivera, 45, previously pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute approximately 110 pounds of methamphetamine. Omar Villacorta was convicted at trial of conspiracy to possess with inte  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: A California man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring with others to distribute hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills throughout the United States. According to court documents, on March 17, 2021, George Anthony Manzo (37), of Redlands, California, sold 500 fentanyl pills to an ind  more

EUGENE, Oregon, June 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release: A Bend, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison for possessing 20 pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Isaac Kitashima, 48, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and five years' supervised release. According to court documents, from August 2020 through June 2021, Kitashima and co-conspirators conducted a multi-state drug trafficking operation  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 28 -- 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 Marion County following the amendment to President Biden's April 28, major disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of the severe winter storm that occurred Jan. 8 - 16, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Adm  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 29 -- 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 Iowa following President Biden's federal disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of severe storms, tornadoes and flooding that occurred May 20 - 31 announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Private   more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 29 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Small nonfarm businesses in the following counties are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought that occurred in the following primary counties in Kansas, announced Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for   more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 29 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Small nonfarm businesses in four Oklahoma counties and neighboring counties in Kansas and Texas are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration. These loan  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 29 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Small nonfarm businesses in 20 Texas counties are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenu  more

MONTEREY, California, June 29 -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center issued the following news: By Tamara Cario Gen. Christopher Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander of U.S. European Command, speaks virtually to new Foreign Area Officers who were gathered together for the Joint Foreign Area Officers Conference held at the Presidio of Monterey June 25-28. "I would not trade my experience as a FAO for anything," said Cavoli, a DLIFLC graduate in the second hi  more

CAMARILLO, California, June 29 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on June 28, 2024: * * * Settles Federal Charges Raspberry Farms Sexually Harassed and Retaliated Against Farmworker Employees * * * Tres Hijas Berry Farms, LLC, will pay $200,000 and furnish injunctive relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The EEOC brought th  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A California man was convicted on June 26, 2024, of multiple felony and misdemeanor offenses related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions 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. A federal jury in the District  more