Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bills:

Coachella, California - Another two pieces of legislation from Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) were signed by Governor Brown earlier today.

 

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed a sweeping package of legislation – including AB 1288 by Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) – to help protect and empower California’s most vulnerable communities, which remain the most susceptible to the impacts of a changing climate.

San Francisco, California - Paul Sloane Davis was sentenced to 36 months in prison today for a Ponzi scheme he perpetrated along with co-defendant Diane Cobb, announced acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson. The sentencing follows a guilty plea in which Davis admitted to running a fraudulent scheme. Court documents establish that Davis and Cobb profited by more than a million dollars.

Sacramento, California - The USDA has released a series of fact sheets illustrating how the newly reached Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement can boost the U.S. agriculture industry, supporting more American jobs and driving the nation’s rural economy. Created by the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), the fact sheets graphically depict how each state and individual commodities stand to benefit from increased agricultural trade with the 11 other TPP countries.

Sacramento, California - A former web producer for KTXL FOX40, a Tribune Company-owned television station in Sacramento, was convicted today for his role in a conspiracy to hack into the servers of the Los Angeles Times and the Tribune Company, following a [seven]-day trial before U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and FBI Special Agent in Charge Monica M. Miller announced.