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Murray State's public radio service 91.3 WKMS presents BURN: an Energy Journal, airing Thursdays, April 19 and 26, at noon. BURN: An Energy Journal is the…

Kentucky’s State Auditor Adam Edelen is concerned about the Commonwealth’s ability support an added 300,000 resident’s to its Medicaid program. Expanded…

ock Critic KEN TUCKER review''s Lou Reed''s new cd.Int 3:Editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter (CRTL), ED PERKINS. He has spent 25 years in travel research and consulting He began editing CRTL, widely known for its objective consumer oriented research. He has a nationally syndicated travel column and has appeared as a travel expert on Good Morning America, The CBS Evening News With Dan Rather, and other TV and radio programs. He received ASTA''s Traveler''s Advocate Award for 1993, and is the co-author of "Best travel Deals, 1996 Edition." (Consumer Reports Books) Perkins talks with Terry Gross about how to get the best seat on an airplane.

Noah talks with Mike O'Connor, who's in Tuzla reporting for the New York Times. War crimes investigators have discovered extensive tampering of evidence at a suspected mass grave site in eastern Bosnia. O'Connor says this site is particularly important because three witnesses claim that the Bosnian Serb military commander, General Ratko Mladic, was present while the mass executions took place. This discovery also calls into question the assurances by U.S. officials that suspected mass gravesites would remain intact for investigators. (4:00) Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 6. HISTORY STANDARDS - NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the release today of a new set of national history standards. The first standards, released 2 years ago, were roundly criticized for offering too many negative examples about American history. The new standards are decidedly more positive about the American experience, but more importantly they omit the specific curriculum suggestions that many people objected to in the original draft.

China is battling to stem the spread of new cases tied to the more infectious variant. Nearly 200 people have been infected since last week, when a case was detected at an international airport.

2: THOMAS BLANTON, of the National Security Archive, a group that declassifies government documents, using the freedom of information act. Recently his group accessed documents indicating that the Reagan administration was aware of human rights abuses in El Salvador in the 1980s. During that time, the administration was required to report to Congress about conditions in El Salvador, with the understanding that if the Salvadorian military did not improve it's human rights record, the U.S. would no longer send aid there. Last week, the U.N.'s Commission on the Truth issued it's report (based on these declassified documents) on abuses by the Salvadorian military, implicating them in the murders of Archbishop Romero, four American churchworkers, and six Jesuit priests. Congress is soon to begin hearings on U.S. policy in El Salvador during the civil war.

The Florida Highway Patrol has released a crash report and 911 calls related to the Steelers quarterback's death earlier this month.

The vast majority of America's recorded legacy is out of print. That's the finding of a study by the Library of Congress. The report shows that consumers can purchase less than 30 percent of U.S. sound recordings made before 1965. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.

A floating retreat, the USS Sequoia was one of the places U.S. presidents found to escape the rigors of office. Richard Nixon took his family there the day he announced his resignation. Now, NPR's Susan Stamberg reports, there's an effort to preserve the former presidential yacht. See historic and current photos of the Sequoia.

A growing number of girls under 18 are being arrested for violent crimes. That's led to the perception that girls have become much more violent in recent decades. But as NPR's Jon Hamilton reports in Part Three of the series Girls and the Juvenile Justice System, experts on juvenile crime have another theory. Listen to previous reports in the series.