Clarksburg, California - California Grown and Visit California are teaming up to produce the #Farm2Fan video series, profiling farms throughout California and fans of those farms who stop by for a visit.

Lancaster, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will attend the memorial service for Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Sergeant Steven Craig Owen in Lancaster.

 

San Diego, California - San Diego State University is recognized as one of the most sustainable universities in a new list released by the Princeton Review. The “Guide to 361 Green Colleges,” released last week, highlights the university’s sustainability practices as well as its commitment to sustainable education coursework.

Los Angeles, California - A Mission Viejo man has agreed to plead guilty to taking more than $2,300,000 from investors in a fraudulent real estate investment scheme in which he used investor funds to pay for personal expenses, including travel and cosmetic surgery, to make cash withdrawals, and to make Ponzi-style payments to other investors.

Los Angeles, California - The former president and CEO of the Sherman Oaks-based Morgan Peabody, Inc. brokerage and investment firm was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison for federal wire fraud charges stemming from an investment scam in which defendant misappropriated nearly $6 million from more than 100 investors.

Fresno, California - Damacio Diaz, 44, of McFarland, formerly a detective with the Bakersfield Police Department, was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for bribery, possession and attempted possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and making and subscribing a false income tax return, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.