Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring January 30, 2015, as Fred Korematsu Day in the State of California.

Sacramento, California - The California State Fair is expanding its commercial competitions for 2015 to include a competition for extra virgin olive oil. Of all the olive oil produced in the United States, California produces 99 percent of it.

Sacramento, California - An effort to double California grower contributions to food banks is underway.

Los Angeles, California - Investigators with the FBI and a variety of beach city police departments, to include Huntington Beach, Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, and Hermosa Beach, are seeking the public’s help in learning the identity of an unknown serial bank robber known as the “Rolled Sleeves Bandit,” a suspect linked to seven bank robberies since November.

Sacramento, California - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), working in coordination with California agricultural officials, has declared the Red Palm Weevil eradicated from the Laguna Beach area of Orange County.

Pine Valley, California - Yesterday, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a man at the I-8 Checkpoint with more than $400,000 of methamphetamine hidden inside the undercarriage of his SUV.