SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (search) plans to go over legislators’ heads and take his case straight to the voters with a special election in November to change the way California spends money, picks its politicians and hires its teachers. The Republican governor was scheduled to call for the …

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Tayshaun Prince (search) looked down upon Manu Ginobili (search) from the right wing, faked him out with a quick move and darted to the basket for a resounding dunk. It was easy, really. Almost too easy. The same could be said for the rest of the …

ORANJESTAD, Aruba – A judge on Saturday ordered the teenage son of a prominent justice official and two of his friends to stay in jail for at least another week while investigators search for clues in the disappearance of a young Alabama woman. A disc jockey on an Aruban tourist …

CHICAGO – Suicidal impulses and attempts are much more common in teenagers who think they are too fat or too thin, regardless of how much they actually weigh, a study found. Using actual body size based on teens’ reports of their height and weight, the researchers found that overall, overweight …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Republican U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris (search), who was praised and vilified for her role as Florida’s secretary of state in the 2000 presidential recount, said Tuesday she will run for the U.S. Senate next year against Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson (search). Her announcement brings a high-profile name …

LONDON – Charlotte Church (search), who has transformed herself from child opera prodigy to pop star, has been namedGQ magazine’s (search) woman of the year. GQ hailed the 19-year-old as a role model and praised Church for her efforts to take her voice, dubbed by critics as angelic, into a …

LONDON – John Lennon’s (search) first wife says the late Beatle had a violent temper and once hit her in a fit of jealousy, according to excerpts from a new book published in a newspaper Sunday. Cynthia Lennon (search) met John in the late 1950s in Liverpool, where they were …

WASHINGTON – Choices, choices. That’s what senior citizens and the disabled will face in the coming months as they select a private plan to cover a portion of their prescription drug costs under Medicare (search). The Bush administration announced Friday that nine insurers have been approved nationwide to provide prescription …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” September 21, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: All right, Jane. Thank you very much. Galveston built a huge 10-mile sea wall after the hurricane of 1900. It’s going to need it, as you …

WASHINGTON – The Army said Wednesday its investigators could not confirm that grisly photographs of purported Iraqi war dead on an Internet site were posted by U.S. soldiers, a case that has stirred concern at the Pentagon. Paul Boyce, an Army spokesman, said the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (search) in …