SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Passengers of a Princess cruise ship filed a lawsuit Wednesday, alleging the cruise line demonstrated negligence in its response to the coronavirus outbreak by operating cruises that led to the sickening of dozens of people and at least three deaths, including a Placer County man.

Plaintiffs in the case were passengers on ...Read more

MIAMI -- Citing continued COVID-19 infections and deaths on cruise ships, federal health authorities are halting cruise operations in U.S. waters until the COVID-19 pandemic is over and requiring the industry to implement a plan to immediately mitigate outbreaks on ships.

In a new "no-sail" order issued late Thursday, the U.S. Centers for ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California lawmakers demanded details Thursday about Gov. Gavin Newsom's agreement to spend almost $1 billion on protective masks needed to combat the state's coronavirus outbreak, saying there has been too little transparency in spending those taxpayer dollars.

"We're getting very little information," said Democratic ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The California Department of Public Health reported Wednesday that 1,651 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been among health care workers, a figure that is just under 10% of the state's confirmed coronavirus cases.

It was the first time the agency reported the number of all positive tests for health care workers. Previously...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Customs and Border Protection pushed back Thursday on a complaint from a Guatemalan woman who gave birth at a Border Patrol station in Chula Vista.

The woman's complaint, filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and Jewish Family Service, asked the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General to ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- A gang enhancement murder case that carries a life without parole sentence is not a violation of the United States' prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, a California appeals court ruled this week.

In its 33-page partially published opinion, the 1st District California Appeals Court ruled that a life without parole ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- A sailor assigned to the San Diego-based aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is in intensive care at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam after being found unresponsive in his room, the Navy said Thursday.

The sailor tested positive for COVID-19 on March 30, according to the Navy. NBC News reported the sailor was found unresponsive Thursday ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- California's coronavirus cases doubled this week to surpass 20,000 Thursday as the state announced a new effort to help overburdened healthcare workers.

Statewide, 20,126 people are confirmed to have the deadly respiratory illness with 545 dead, according to data compiled by this news organization, seven days after ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has quickly expelled roughly 10,000 migrants to Mexico and other countries in less than three weeks since imposing its most severe immigration restrictions yet in response to the coronavirus outbreak, officials said Thursday.

After the United States and Mexico last month closed their border to "non-...Read more

Florida coronavirus death toll nears 400

MIAMI -- Forty eight more people died in Florida from COVID-19, the single biggest jump in deaths since the outbreak began, state health officials announced Thursday night.

The new deaths brought the state's death toll to 371, a 15% jump since Wednesday evening, while the number of confirmed COVID-19 ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- In a peace offering to progressives a day after Sen. Bernie Sanders quit the presidential race, Joe Biden announced support Thursday for an expansion of Medicare and education policies that move closer to his former rival's agenda.

Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, proposed expanding government health ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Two years ago, a college counselor at Marymount High School, an elite all-girls school on Los Angeles' Westside, got a call in his office: J. Mossimo Giannulli, the fashion designer and husband of actress Lori Loughlin, was at the front desk and wanted to see him.

The counselor, Philip Petrone, had told the University of Southern...Read more

MIAMI -- A former Venezuelan attorney general has been implicated in a major U.S. corruption case accusing a one-time oil contractor of using South Florida banks to funnel bribes to her to block criminal charges against his companies in Venezuela.

Although the former high-ranking official is not named in a Miami criminal case, sources familiar ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- Washington University School of Medicine announced Thursday that it is launching a clinical trial to investigate the controversial drug chloroquine, among others, to treat the new coronavirus.

The trial will look at different combinations of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin. Hydroxychloroquine and ...Read more