SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 24, 2024, entitled "Oregon Job Openings and Labor Turnover - February 2024": * * * Oregon had 114,000 job openings in February 2024, compared to 142,000 openings in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the job openings rate in Or  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release: Domenick Nardone appeared in federal court in Oakland this week to face conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and related charges for his alleged role in a kickback scheme that defrauded Williams Sonoma, Inc. (WSI) of millions of dollars, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Acting Special Agent in   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release: Allen Gessen was sentenced to 120 months in prison for arranging to pay an undercover FBI agent for the murder of the mother of his young children, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp. The sentence was handed down by the Hon. Jacqueline Scott Corley, U.S. Distric  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on April 26, 2024: A San Gabriel Valley woman pleaded guilty today to defrauding the United States Postal Service (USPS) out of more than $150 million by using counterfeit postage to ship tens of millions of parcels. Lijuan "Angela" Chen, 51, of Walnut, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of use of counterfeit  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release: The United States and the State of California have reached a $7,084,000 civil settlement with Monrovia-based ReNew Health Group LLC, ReNew Health Consulting Services LLC, and two corporate executives for knowingly submitting false Medicare Part A claims for nursing home residents. During the COVID-19 pandemic, to conserve hospital beds, the Centers for Medi  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 27 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: * * * Assesses $8K in Penalties * * * The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $245,722 in back wages and damages for 10 cooks after investigators found the owner and operator of four northern California restaurants denied them required overtime and minimum wages knowingly. The department's Wage and Hour Division determined The Pho restaurants and principal owner Th  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, April 27 -- The U.S. Air Force Wright-Patterson Air Force Base issued the following news: By Daniel Peterson Wright-Patterson Air Force Base recently welcomed mission partners stationed on both sides of the United States. First, an aircrew from the 349th Air Mobility Wing at Travis AFB, California, took part in a mission April 14-15 to deliver one of the last remaining KC-10A Extenders to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. When the museum decided to acquir  more

BILLINGS, Montana, April 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on April 26, 2024: A federal jury on Thursday convicted two Montana residents and a California man of drug trafficking crimes for bringing pounds of methamphetamine and thousands of fentanyl pills to the Butte and Helena communities for distribution, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said today. After a four-day trial that began on April 22, the jury found Juan Felipe Vidrio  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The National Security Innovation Network, a program office of the Department of Defense, issued the following news: NAME: PeakMetrics FOUNDERS: Nick Loui & Bobby Lincoln LOCATION: Los Angeles, California Q: Can you describe your technology? Nick Loui: At PeakMetrics, we provide a narrative intelligence platform that helps governments and enterprises identify and combat emerging online narrative threats in real-time. We leverage machine learning technology to analyze   more

WASHINGTON, April 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract In this paper, we perform a data-driven analysis to characterize the impact of wave energy integration on bulk-scale power systems and market operations in the western coast of continental United States (U.S.). A suitable reduced-order network topology for the U.S.Western Interconnection was curated, to which wave energy genera  more

MONTEREY, California, April 27 -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center issued the following news: By Tamara Cario The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center has faculty and staff from 93 different countries, a wide mix that brings with it a variety of cultures with unique characteristics and habits. Throw in the U.S. military staff and students, which has its own brand of idiosyncrasies, and you get a concoction that defies one-size-fits-all solutions. As an exam  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: PEDRO VAZQUEZ, age 31, of California, was sentenced on April 25, 2024, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine (Count 1) and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine (Count 2), in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 846 respectively. VAZQUEZ was sentenced by Chief Judge Na  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced today that the Redlands Unified School District in California has entered into a resolution agreement to remedy violations OCR found of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 regarding district responses to notice of sexual assault and other sexual harassment of its students, including by employees. OCR determined that the  more

BURLINGAME, California, April 27 -- The U.S. Postal Service issued the following news release on April 26, 2024: The Postal Service today issued a new $1 Floral Geometry stamp, the latest offering in the organization's Floral Geometry collection. The $1 stamp joins similar $2 and $5 stamps issued in 2022 and a $10 stamp issued in 2023. Floral Geometry stamps lend an elegant and contemporary look to packages, large envelopes and other mailings. The stamp art features a series of overlapping ge  more