Background checks required to buy firearms have spiked to record numbers in the past month, fueled by a run on guns from Americans panicked about their safety during the coronavirus crisis.

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Larry David appeared in a public service announcement Tuesday that urged California residents to take advantage of the opportunity to stay home and binge television amid the coronavirus pandemic, NBC News reports.

California is enlisting retired doctors and medical and nursing students to help treat an anticipated surge of coronavirus patients, the governor announced Monday. The California Health Corps effort comes as the nation’s most populous state anticipates hospitals becoming overwhelmed with patients and while it is preparing stadiums and convention centers to handle a crush of cases. “If you’re a...

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted shutdowns of schools, businesses and events across the U.S. Here are how some states are responding to the outbreak.

California farms are still working to supply food to much of the United States amid the coronavirus

Los Angeles County health officials backtracked Tuesday on their announcement that a child died from coronavirus, saying it’s possible the death was caused by something else.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a stay-at-home order Thursday to aid in preventing the spread of the coronavirus. Here is what you need to know about the order and what it means for you.

Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a “stay-at-home” order Thursday evening, which instructs Californians to stay in their home unless they’re performing an essential function. The order goes into effect Thursday evening.

A Northern California man who was charged with acting as an agent of China’s government and arrested as part of an FBI sting operation was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.

NBC News projected on Thursday that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., won the Democratic primary in California, the state with the largest amount of Super Tuesday delegates. With 76 percent of the vote in, the Vermont lawmaker leads with 33.9 percent of the vote. Former vice president Joe Biden is in second place with 26.5 percent. Former New York City mayor…

A couple who was aboard a cruise ship carrying passengers who tested positive for coronavirus has filed a $1 million lawsuit, alleging that the company exposed them to the disease. Ronald Weissberger, 74, and his wife, Eva Weissberger, 69, of Broward County, Florida, boarded the Grand Princess in San Francisco on Feb. 21 for what was supposed to be a relaxing vacation to...

Real estate heir Robert Durst has never been charged in the 1982 New York disappearance of his wife, who was later declared dead

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed to 11 on Wednesday with a patient succumbing in California — the first reported fatality outside Washington state — as federal authorities announced an investigation of the Seattle-area nursing home where most of the victims were stricken. Officials in California’s Placer County, near Sacramento, said an elderly person who tested positive after returning...

There were 88 reported cases of coronavirus in the United States as of Monday and more than 80,000 worldwide. This scare has led to a spike in sales of products Americans think will help them avoid the virus.

A California man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking the families of Parkland, Florida, school shooting victims. A federal judge imposed the sentence Monday on 22-year-old Brandon Fleury of Santa Ana, California. He was convicted by a jury in October. Evidence shows he used Instagram accounts to harass and threaten families of those who...

In a story February 28, 2020, about California’s primary election, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of California Democratic Party pledged delegates

The Orange County Register reports that Santa Ana police officers fatally shot an armed man Sunday afternoon inside a Catholic church.

Health officials in California, Oregon and Washington state worried about the novel coronavirus spreading through West Coast communities after confirming three patients were infected by unknown means.

A California patient who appears to be America’s first case of a coronavirus transmission of unknown origin has prompted two major questions: How was she exposed to the virus, and who else might have it?

Health officials confronted tough questions and doubts Thursday about testing to intercept the fast-spreading virus, with scrutiny focused on a four-day delay in screening an infected California woman despite her doctors’ early calls to do so.