Fresno, California - Chief U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Jonathan Mota, 37, and Dominic Adams, 27, last Monday to 20 years in prison, following their convictions at trial, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

Los Angeles, California - The owner and president of a San Fernando Valley trucking school pleaded guilty last week to federal criminal charges for bilking the United States Department of Veterans Affairs out of more than $4 million in tuition and other payments after falsely certifying that veterans had attended classes that they never took.

Redding, California - The California State Board of Food and Agriculture will host a public listening session on California’s Water Future on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in Redding.  The meeting will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Redding Hotel at the Sundial Bridge, 820 Sundial Bridge Drive, Redding, CA 96001.

Sacramento, California - The Department of Justice Tuesday announced a series of settlements to resolve allegations that several California-based mortgage loan modification service providers engaged in national origin discrimination in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act when they targeted Hispanic homeowners for predatory mortgage loan modification services and interfered with those individuals’ ability to keep their homes.

Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a state agency in 2019. Throughout the year this blog will feature a number of items to commemorate this milestone. Today we continue with the Centennial Reflections video series, featuring CDFA employees remembering their histories, and the agency’s.

Sacramento, California - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Wednesday issued the following statement after a Superior Court granted a preliminary injunction halting Westlands Water District's participation in an unlawful project to raise the Shasta Dam: