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NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on the variety of opinions being expressed about Disney's impact on ABC's news and entertainment programming. Disney's take-over of Cap Cities/ABC is one of a number of huge media mergers raising concerns about the demise of network independence.

Ailene Leblanc of member station WHQR reports that at least 14 Marines died early this morning when their helicopters collided during military maneuvers at Camp Lejuene. The cause of the collision is under investigation. The Marines were part of US-British war games simulating a crisis in the Persian Gulf.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on a novel Federal ruling in which a New York judge has held that victims of handgun violence can sue the firearms industry to discover whether it failed to take steps to prevent sales to illegal buyers.

N-P-R's Linda Gradstein (grad-steen) reports from Israel on the apture Friday of HAssan Salameh, who the Israelis beleive is responsible for hree suicide attacks earlier this year. The capture has raised fears that the sraeli elections 10 days from now will be a target for disruption.

Since the Oklahoma City bombing, the American public has become more informed about right-wing miltia groups. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that over the past year many militia members have shifted their efforts towards challenging local government's right to enact laws.

P-R's Wade Goodwyn reports on today's memorial services.

NPR'S MARGOT ADLER REPORTS ON THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF WORLD AFFAIRS AT COLORADO UNIVERSITY, A VENERABLE BUT QUIRKY GATHERING OF ARTISTS, POLICY WONKS, SCIENTISTS AND WRITERS WHO HAVE BEEN GATHERING IN BOULDER SINCE 1948 TO DISCUSS SEX, ROCK AND ROLL AND THE STATE OF THE PLANET.

For years, ranchers and environmentalists have locked horns over who gets to use the land and how. But many on each side are getting tired of all the fighting and now, as Sandy Tolan reports, they're starting to work and even manage the land togther.

NPR's John Ydstie reports the economy showed signs of renewed strength in the first three months of the year. The Commerce Department says the nation's gross domestic product grew 2.8% in the first quarter, a faster rate of growth than most analysts expected. Healthy levels of cnsumer spending and business investment.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the reaction to the life sentence given to Yigal Amir, the man who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last November. Most people welcomed the sentence, though they have yet to come to terms with the traumatic events surrounding the assassination.