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Federal Tipoffs Involving California Newsletter for Friday October 11, 2024 ( 14 items )  

BLM issues proposed management plan for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: Medford, Ore. --The Bureau of Land Management today announced a proposed plan for the management and protection of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in southcentral Oregon and northern California. If approved, the plan will guide management of the monument's approximately 113,500 acres by protecting its exceptional biodiversity, while ensuring continued stewardship of his  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Price Index, Honolulu Area - September 2024'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 10, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Honolulu Area - September 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.7 percent over the past two months, up 4.2 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Honolulu area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.7 percent for the two month  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Price Index, Los Angeles Area - September 2024'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 10, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Los Angeles Area - September 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.2 percent over the past month, up 2.8 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Los Angeles area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.2 percent in September, th  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Price Index, Riverside Area - September 2024'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 10, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Riverside Area - September 2024": * * * Area prices were unchanged over the past two months, up 1.4 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Riverside area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were unchanged for the two months ending i  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Price Index, San Diego Area - September 2024'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 10, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, San Diego Area - September 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.3 percent over the past two months, up 2.5 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the San Diego area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.3 percent for the two mon  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Price Index, West Region - September 2024'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 10, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, West Region - September 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.2 percent over the past month, up 2.1 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the West Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.2 percent in September, the U.S. Bur  more

CDC Confirms 3rd Human Case of H5 Bird Flu in California
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the following news release on Oct. 9, 2024: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed a third human case of H5 bird flu in California. Like the two cases in that state confirmed last week, the person reported occupational exposure to infected dairy cows. To date, all three California cases occurred in dairy workers from three different affected farm  more

FBI San Francisco Releases Local Data From 2023 Cryptocurrency Fraud Report
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The FBI issued the following news release: * * * With Cybersecurity Awareness Month in full swing, the FBI urges the public to stay vigilant * * * The FBI's 2023 Cryptocurrency Fraud Report reveals that California experienced the highest cryptocurrency-related losses in the nation, totaling $1.15 billion. Within the FBI San Francisco Field Office's territory, losses amounted to $260,313,902, with 1,226 victims across 15 counties, including Alameda, San Francis  more

Justice Department Obtains Injunction to Prevent California Company From Manufacturing and Distributing Adulterated Food Following Listeria Outbreak
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Oct. 9, 2024: A federal court yesterday enjoined a California company from manufacturing and distributing adulterated food products following a listeria outbreak linked to multiple hospitalizations and two deaths. In a civil complaint filed on Sept. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, the United States alleged that Rizo Lopez Foods Inc., along with its president, chief e  more

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Does Distant Planet Host Volcanic Moon Like Jupiter's Io?
PASADENA, California, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * The existence of a moon located outside our solar system has never been confirmed but a new NASA-led study may provide indirect evidence for one. * * * New research done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals potential signs of a rocky, volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet 635 light-years from Earth. The biggest clue is a sodium cloud that the findings suggest is close to but sligh  more

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument
PASADENA, California, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * The imaging spectrometer aboard the Carbon Mapper Coalition's Tanager-1 satellite identified methane and carbon dioxide plumes in the United States and internationally. * * * Using data from an instrument designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the nonprofit Carbon Mapper has released the first methane and carbon dioxide detections from the Tanager-1 satell  more

NASA-Funded Study Assesses Pollution Near Los Angeles-Area Warehouses
PASADENA, California, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Satellite-based data offers a broad view of particulate air pollution patterns across a major West Coast e-commerce hub. * * * As goods of all shapes and sizes journey from factory to doorstep, chances are they've stopped at a warehouse along the way -- likely several of them. The sprawling structures are waypoints in the logistics networks that make e-commerce possible. Yet the conve  more

Telling the Army Test & Evaluation Command Story: The People Behind Test & Evaluation - Michele Dominguez
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland, Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command issued the following news: Michele Dominguez, a self-professed "Valley Girl," grew up in Southern California's San Fernando Valley region. Fluent in Valley Speak, or Valspeak, she was a regular at the famous Sherman Oaks Galleria--widely recognized as the Valley Girl's official stomping ground. Dominguez came of age during the early 1980s, a time marked by the success of Frank Zappa's iconic hit "Valley Girl  more

U.S. Attorney for D.C.: California Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Law Enforcement With a Weapon and Other Charges During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A California man pleaded guilty on Oct. 9, 2024, to assaulting law enforcement with a weapon and other charges 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. Jerry Daniel  more