The San Francisco Bay Area is under a shelter-in-place order, and New York City’s mayor is considering ordering the same thing. What does that mean?
Author: Jordan Culver, USA TODAY
State Department: US citizens ‘should not travel by cruise ship’ amid coronavirus outbreak
The U.S. Department of State recommends avoiding cruise ships and the CDC has issued new guidance for Americans traveling via cruise ship.
Police in Oregon say a man robbed a doughnut shop with a hatchet. He was found eating a doughnut.
Police arrested Christopher James, 40, after he allegedly robbed a doughnut shop with a hatchet and was found a block away eating a doughnut.
‘We avoided a tragedy’: California police arrest UPS worker accused of threatening to carry out a mass shooting
Thomas Andrews, a UPS worker in California, was arrested after he allegedly text messages threatening a mass shooting to his employer, police say.
A joke gone too far? Some police departments are offering to ‘test’ meth for coronavirus. Not everybody is laughing
Law enforcement agencies across the nation are jokingly encouraging meth users to bring their drugs in so they can be tested for coronavirus.
A rare, ‘cryptic’ rainbow snake was spotted in a Florida forest for the first time since 1969
A rainbow snake, also known as an “eel moccasin,” was spotted in Florida’s Ocala National Forest for the first time in five decades.
A California man drove his Jeep off the roof of a six-level parking garage and crashed into a McDonald’s, police say
Police say a California man drove a Jeep off a parking garage and into a McDonald’s. Two people dove out of the car before it crashed.
Wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 in Georgia kills 6 people, including 3 children
Six people, including three children, were killed early Sunday in a head-on crash on Interstate 95, according to the Georgia State Patrol.
Woman plays the violin while undergoing surgery to remove brain tumor at hospital in London
Dagmar Turner wanted to make sure she’d be able to continue playing the violin after doctor’s at King’s College Hospital in London removed a tumor.
‘A callous act of animal cruelty’: Koalas found starving, injured on private land in Australia
The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning is investigating after trees were bulldozed in Victoria, Australia, with koalas still in them.