Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Monday announced that the White House has approved California's request for a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration, submitted yesterday, to bolster the ongoing emergency response and help residents recover from devastating fires burning in Butte, Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

Los Angeles, California - A West Hollywood man was taken into federal custody Wednesday in relation to new fraud charges that alleged he participated in a series of scams while free on bond and after pleaded guilty in a prior federal case.

Los Angeles, California - A former Dunbar Armored employee has pleaded not guilty to federal conspiracy and bank theft charges contained in a grand jury indictment that alleges a scheme to smuggle $300,000 in cash out of Dunbar’s storage facility in Vernon.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued the following statement in response to the shooting last night in Thousand Oaks, California:

Los Angeles, California - The former CEO of Citrades pleaded guilty Thursday for his role in a scheme to defraud investors out of $8.3 million in the United States and across the world in financial instruments known as “binary options,” announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Assistant Director in Charge Nancy McNamara of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.  Citrades was a purported internet-based investment platform.

Sacramento, California - California agricultural commissioners now have the regulatory “teeth” they sought to enforce bee registration each year – something they long complained was needed to protect the pollinators.