CHICAGO, Illinois, May 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release: Two suburban Chicago men have been sentenced to prison as part of a federal investigation that dismantled a Mexico-to-Chicago drug pipeline. SHELDON MORALES and EDUARDO SANTANA conspired with a supplier in Mexico and two inmates in a prison in Texas to traffic methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine from Mexico to Evanston, Ill., and Morton Grove, Ill., in 2019. T  more

LOS ANGELES, California, May 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: The captain of the P/V Conception - a Santa Barbara-based dive boat that caught fire and sank near Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day in 2019, resulting in the deaths of 33 passengers and one crew member - was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison. Jerry Nehl Boylan, 70, of Santa Barbara, was sentenced by United States District Judge George  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: A federal grand jury has handed down an indictment charging 11 South Bay residents with taking part in a racketeering conspiracy to promote the aims of the Salinas Acosta Plaza Nortenos (SAP Nortenos) street gang. The indictment, filed April 18, 2024, and unsealed earlier today, describes a halting list of crimes including eight murders du  more

SAN DIEGO, California, May 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: Palm Care Pharmacy, a San Diego County pharmacy chain with a storefront in El Cajon, has paid $350,000 to resolve allegations that it diverted controlled substances, failed to keep necessary accounting records for controlled substances, and improperly sold pseudoephedrine chemical products. The settlement arises from a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration i  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued the following news on May 1, 2024: * * * DARPA program exhibits modular, first-of-kind capabilities * * * The Manta Ray prototype uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) built by performer Northrop Grumman completed full-scale, in-water testing off the coast of Southern California in February and March 2024. Testing demonstrated at-sea hydrodynamic performance, including submerged operat  more

TRACY, California, May 3 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: By John Johnson, DLA Distribution San Joaquin Public Affairs Defense Logistics Agency Distribution San Joaquin hosted an installation tour April 16 for DLA Vice Director Brad Bunn in conjunction with the DLA Installation Management Spring Off-Site, at which Bunn served as the keynote speaker. Jonathan Mathews, DL Installation Management San Joaquin site director, said such visits p  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news on May 1, 2024: * * * Northern Arizona University was the overall winner of the 2024 Hydropower Collegiate Competition. * * * The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the winners of the 2024 Hydropower Collegiate Competition (HCC). Northern Arizona University was the overall winner, followed by Johns Hopkins University in second place and California Polytechnic  more

LIVERMORE, California, May 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) postdoc Sam Hedges has won a 2024 Springer Thesis Award for his work in searching for the elusive neutrino. "I'm honored that my thesis was nominated for this award, and was excited when I found out it had won," Hedges said. His thesis, "Low Energy Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions at the Spallation Neutron Source,  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- President Biden issued the following proclamation on May 2, 2024, on expanding the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument: * * * Through Proclamation 9298 of July 10, 2015, President Obama established the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument (monument) to protect an array of spectacular historic, cultural, geologic, and ecological resources in the heart of northern California's Inner Coast Range. Straddling the eastern edge of the monument boundary, Molok Luyuk --   more

LIVERMORE, California, May 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, academia and industry convened recently at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) for a workshop aimed at aligning strategies for ensuring safe artificial intelligence (AI). The daylong event, attended by dozens of AI researchers, included keynote speech  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development issued the following news release: USAID is supporting three new efforts in the Amazon region to prioritize environmental conservation, reforestation, and socio-economic development, including the Agency's largest ever program in Ecuador in support of conservation and Indigenous Peoples. As a result of efforts like these, USAID helps conserve as well as catalyze sustainable conservation and investment in more than 45 million hec  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, May 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: A Buena Park, California man, who supplied as many as 30,000 pressed fentanyl pills a week to individuals who then shipped the pills into Southwest Virginia, was sentenced today to 18 years in federal prison. Robert Contreras, 24, a.k.a. "Quill," previously pled guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute and possession with the intent to distr  more