WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: Actor Humphrey Bogart is best known for his leading roles in the films "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "Casablanca" (1942), "The African Queen" (1951), "The Caine Mutiny" (1954) and more. Lesser known is that Bogart also served in World War I in the Navy and during World War II in the Coast Guard. In the Spring of 1918 during World War I, Bogart, 18, enlisted in the Navy, training on the sailing warship USS Granit  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Nov. 27 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Nov. 26, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the California Highway Patrol's (CHP) Organized Retail Crime Task Force (ORCTF) will conduct proactive law enforcement operations during the busy holiday season. The Governor also announced new data showing the task force has made over 1,200 arrests, conducted 677 investigations, and recovered over $9.3 million worth of stolen items since   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures for the Los Angeles Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the Los Angeles, CA, metropolitan area spent an average of $86,077 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that food, housing, and transportati  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures for the Phoenix Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the Phoenix, AZ, metropolitan area spent an average of $95,481 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that food, housing, and transpo  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the San Diego Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the San Diego-Carlsbad, CA, metropolitan area spent an average of $91,204 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that food, housing,  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the San Francisco Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA, metropolitan area spent an average of $110,886 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted tha  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the Seattle Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, metropolitan area spent an average of $101,306 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that food, hous  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued the following news release: Anchorage, AK - The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) Alaska Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region is pleased to announce Heather Parker as chief of its Environmental Studies Program. With over 20 years of expertise in marine science, oil spill response, and multi-agency coordination, Parker brings a wealth of experience to BOEM's mission to responsibly manag  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Nov. 27 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Nov. 26, 2024: Continuing the state's commitment to creating more housing and providing support faster, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that local communities now have access to new streamlining tools to expedite the development of new supportive housing with simplified permitting and approval processes. These projects will help to get people off the streets and give them access to th  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected the California Air Resources Board and the University of California Berkeley for a total of $1,180,939 in grants for technical assistance to businesses to develop and adopt pollution prevention (P2) practices in their communities. EPA announced 48 selectees nationwide who will collectively receive nearly $19 million in grants   more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Nov. 26 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis issued the following article on November 14, 2024, by Jeff Horwich entitled "How higher property taxes increase home affordability." Here are excerpts: * * * Meanwhile, Texas lawmakers have been on a multiyear mission to lower some of the nation's highest property taxes--and especially to lessen the burden on older adults. Property taxes nearing 2 percent, on average, make homeownership in Texas a more expensive ongoin  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The Federal Labor Relations Authority issued the following decision (Case No. 0-AR-5913) on Nov. 25, 2024: * * * UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS WEST PALM BEACH VA MEDICAL CENTER WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA (Agency) and AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES LOCAL 507 (Union) 0 AR 5913 DECISION November 25, 2024 * * * Before the Authority: Susan Tsui Grundmann, Chairman, and Colleen Duffy Kiko and Anne Wagner, Members (Member Kiko concurring) I.  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 26, 2024: Richard Shih, 77, the founder and former chief executive officer of a California-based international logistics and freight forwarding company with offices in Grapevine, Texas, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to violate export laws by shipping goods to Chinese companies on the U.S. Department of Commerce's Entity List. According to court documents, as of September 2018, Shih's U.S. compa  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 26, 2024: * * * Settlement Marks New Milestone in Department's Enforcement of the ADA's Integration Mandate * * * The Justice Department announced today that it secured a settlement agreement to resolve its lawsuit alleging that Maine violates Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead v. L.C. by unnecessarily segregating children with behavi  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: It's been 45 years since the first emergency phone call from the Department of Energy came into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to activate a new atmospheric modeling center that predicts the effects of hazardous plumes. Listen on Apple or Spotify. An accident had occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania on March 28, 1979,   more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Nov. 26 -- Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey issued the following news release on Nov. 26, 2024: Attorney General Aaron Frey today announced that he has filed suit in state court against Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP, Sunoco, and the American Petroleum Institute for deceiving Mainers for decades about the role of their fossil fuel products in causing climate change. The State seeks to hold the Defendants accountable for failing to warn Mainers and concealing their knowledge about th  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The Naval Postgraduate School issued the following news: As the naval aviation enterprise moves to fully integrate emerging virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies into the spectrum of aviator training, understanding the impact of these technologies on training effectiveness is paramount. U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Thomas A. Cecil, a June 2024 graduate from NPS' Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) program and winner of Commander George L. Phil  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Nov. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release: Christopher Gibson, 41, of Wilmington, was sentenced to 240 months in prison for trafficking more than 30 pounds of methamphetamine in the Wilmington area. He pled guilty on August 13, 2024, to a drug conspiracy involving more than 500 grams of methamphetamine and cocaine. According to court documents and other information presented in court, on Nove  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news release: By Mary E. Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications Seven U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers were named Laboratory-University Collaboration Initiative (LUCI) fellows for the class of 2025 in a Defense Department (DoD) announcement Nov. 18. LUCI fellowships engage prominent university researchers and their students, immerse them in the DoD research environment,   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: PUBLIC NOTICESACRAMENTO, Calif. The Bureau of Reclamation today announces continued public negotiation sessions with the San Luis and 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 partnering   more