Los Angeles, California - A pharmacist who owned and operated a pharmacy in Los Angeles pleaded guilty today in connection with a Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie Yonekura of the Central District of California and Assistant Director in Charge David Bowdich of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring March 16 through 22, 2015, as Women’s Military History Week in the State of California.

Sacramento, California - State Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins announced today her select committee memberships for the 2015-2016 Regular Session and appointed Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia to the following Select Committees:

San Diego, California - If California were its own country, it would have the world’s fourth largest immigrant population. A new research collaboration at five University of California campuses—led by UC San Diego and funded by the UC Office of the President—will help policymakers, non-governmental organizations and the public to better understand the impacts of immigration on California and to plan more effectively for the state’s future.

Sacramento, California - The next segment in the Growing California video series, a partnership with California Grown, is “Cow Power.”

Los Angeles, California - UCLA Anderson Forecast’s first quarterly report for 2015 for the United States economy says that the nation “looks like an island of stability in a very volatile world.”