(CNSNews.com) - Amidst rolling blackouts and spiraling electric costs, most Californians disapprove of the way their Democratic governor is handling the energy crisis, a new statewide survey finds.The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released a survey this week that shows Gov. Gray Davis' public approval rating at 46 percent - a drop of 17 points in just four months.The study also indicates that a mere 29 percent of California residents approve of the way Davis is handling the ongoing energy crisis.

(CNSNews.com) - A gun control advocacy group filed a lawsuit Monday against Attorney General John Ashcroft, alleging he is illegally delaying a Clinton administration firearm purchasing regulation from being written into the books.The Violence Policy Center filed its suit in a U.S. District Court, claiming Ashcroft "illegally suspended a final Justice Department regulation implementing the Brady Law's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for firearm purchases."

(CNSNews.com) - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris Monday revealed that her eyes are set on a potential bid for U.S. Congress in 2002.The former centerpiece of last winter's late night presidential election humor, Harris endured heaps of personal and political criticism from Democrats who say she handed the election to George Bush. But instead of retreating into obscurity, Harris appears to be looking to the future.

(CNSNews.com) - Saying "we have no idea who it was," the Klamath Falls Irrigation District confirmed Monday that one of the dams closed by court order was opened late Friday night or early Saturday morning, providing water to nearby parched farmland, and closed again on Monday.For three months, some 1,400 farms, comprising some 200,000 acres along the California-Oregon border, have been without water, after the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation decided on April 7 that the available water supply would be used to sustain "critical habitat" for two kinds of endangered fish.

(CNSNews.com) - A U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts this week will conduct an open hearing into whether incriminating background information about the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) should be included in a wrongful death lawsuit against the group.The American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU) is defending NAMBLA in the suit that was filed last year by the parents of Jeffrey Curley. In 1997, Jeffrey, at the age of 10, was murdered and sodomized by two homosexuals.

(CNSNews.com) - The investigation of a little-known incident in which a pro-life activist was stabbed outside a Little Rock, Ark. abortion clinic remains open, leaving many pro-life advocates alleging official indifference to the case.Attorney Fred Hart and friend Jim Dawson were protesting outside the Family Health Care Clinic on May 18 when, according to police reports, two women yelled obscene words out of a truck. One woman "exited and grabbed [Hart's] sign and took off running."

(CNSNews.com) - Saying they are "starting fires all over the country," advocates promoting legislation requiring high school students to study America's founding documents are now concentrating their efforts on the state of Ohio.