WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By Giancarlo Casem, 412th Test Wing Public Affairs EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The 412th Test Wing conducted the largest combat readiness exercise in Air Force Materiel Command corporate memory Dec. 3 to 6, and followed up with a full-day community partner tabletop readiness exercise on Dec. 9 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The exercise and associated inspection teste more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has partnered with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to award $21.5 million for 117 projects through the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI) to build resilience across the middle of the supply chain and strengthen local and regional  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: VALLEJO, Calif. MedMark Treatment Centers, a subsidiary of BayMark Health Services which provides treatment for opioid addiction and substance use disorders, agreed to provide $55,000 to a former employee following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. According to the EEOC, a counselor at MedMark's treatment center in  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security issued the following news release: Today, as part of a settlement agreement, the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) imposed a civil penalty of $3,300,000 against Integra Technologies, Inc. ("Integra"), a radio frequency and microwave power solutions engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in El Segundo, California. The penalty relates to Integra's shipments to Russia of more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy has extended the University of California's contract to manage and operate Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) for another five years, effective June 1, 2025. The contract extension continues an incredibly productive Berkeley Lab-UC partnership that has led to 16 Nobel Prizes, 17 National Medals, and hundreds of scientific breakt more PR

MENLO PARK, California, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news feature: * * * About 30 years ago an 'ideas guy' and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence. In this Q&A, SLAC's Thomas Shutt and Daniel Akerib discuss the challenges of their field and how future generations of dark matter experiments will narrow down the chase. * * * By Ali Sundermier Over a decade ago, dark matter experts Daniel Akerib and Tho more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Dec. 17, 2024: * * * Defendant Did Not Pay More than $1M to the IRS * * * A California man was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for failing to pay over employment taxes withheld from the wages of his company's employees. According to court documents and statements made in court, Shane Brightpath Mike owned and was the president and chief operating officer of Excel Behavioral Services  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Dec. 17, 2024: A grand jury in San Diego returned an indictment unsealed yesterday charging a California attorney with tax evasion, filing a false tax return and failing to file tax returns with the IRS. According to the indictment, from 2017 to 2019, Robert Blair Krueger Jr. was an attorney and sole owner of The Krueger Group LLP, a law firm in San Diego specializing in providing legal services for comp more PR

LIVERMORE, California, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news on Dec. 18, 2024: How do you find and measure nuclear particles, like antineutrinos, that travel near the speed of light? Antineutrinos are the antimatter partner of a neutrino, one of nature's most elusive and least understood subatomic particles. They are commonly observed near nuclear reactors, which emit copious amounts of antineutrinos, but they also ar more PR

LIVERMORE, California, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Imagine a world of manufacturing no longer constrained by complexity or traditional materials, and where previously impossible engineering designs are suddenly possible. That's the promise of additive manufacturing (AM), the focus of the latest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast. The episode delves into the past, present and future of AM, featuring experts from Law more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 1:24-cv-13113; D. Mass. filed Dec. 18, 2024) involving Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou: * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed charges against Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou, a physician and clinical professor at a California public university, for insider trading in advance of an October 28, 2022, public announcement relaying positive news about clinical trials of a cancer fighting drug bei more PR

PASADENA, California, Dec. 17 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency's retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft's solar panels. In the new image taken Oct. 23 by MRO's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, InSight's solar panels have acquired the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet. After touching down in Novemb more PR

MENLO PARK, California, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * LCLS X-rays allowed researchers to connect the molecular dynamics of supercritical carbon dioxide, which is used in industrial and environmental applications, with its unique properties. * * * By Chris Patrick It's a liquid! It's a gas! No, it's a supercritical fluid! Neither gas nor liquid, supercritical fluids exhibit a unique mashup of the properties of both and  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: As a seven-time American League batting champion and 18-time All-Star for the Minnesota Twins (1967-1978) and the California Angels (1979-1985), Rod Carew is considered a baseball legend. He also served as a combat engineer for six years in the Marine Corps Reserve, enlisting in 1966. Combat engineers are proficient at building bridges, demolitions, route clearance and other tasks. In October 2011, Carew was  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: On Thursday, Dec. 19, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona will host the "Creating Pathways for Multilingualism for All" convening. At the event, the Office of English Language Acquisition will release four Dual Language Immersion Playbooks and a call to action to governors across the nation. This convening will showcase high-quality dual language immersion programs in California, New York, Texas, U more PR