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

Sacramento, California - The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is conducting an art contest to select the design for the state’s 2015-2016 upland game bird stamp. This year’s stamp will feature the ring-necked pheasant.

Sacramento, California - United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced Mohammad Nawaz Khan, 60, to 12 and a half years in prison for his role in a $14 million unemployment and disability benefits fraud scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

Los Angeles, California - The owner of a Glendora egg donation and surrogacy company who admitted defrauding would-be parents, egg donors and surrogate mothers over the course of more than three years was sentenced this morning to 18 months in federal prison.

Sacramento, California - Federal inmate Joseph Cabrera Sablan, 47, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release for the murder of United States Correctional Officer Jose Rivera, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced.

San Francisco, California - A resident of Reseda, California, was sentenced to prison today for conspiring to submit false claims, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch of the Northern District of California.