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A federal jury in Tacoma, Wash., found that private prison contractor, the GEO Group, underpaid detainees who provided menial services in the facility

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on former refugees from Guatemala's 36-year civil war. Many returned to Guatemala from Mexico after a peace agreement in 1996, but conditions are still harsh.

From member station WHYY, Fred Mogul reports on the debut of composer Stephen Paulus's Voices of Light by the New York Philharmonic. Based on the work of two little-known medieval poets, this new sacred choral piece draws more on a "spiritual element" than evangelical tradition.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports that last night, Cincinnati's streets were relatively calm. The social unrest of the last several days gave way to just a couple-dozen arrests for breaking curfew.

NPR's Ketzel Levine reports on the haggling over checkered lilies, striped bark maples, and double-primroses at the spring plant sale at Portland's Hoyt Arboretum. (3:44) Check out Talking Plants.

Steve Hirschberg of member station WVXU reports on the state of emergency declared by Cincinnati Mayor Charles Luken today. It's the fourth day of protests and vandalism sparked by the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer last weekend. The mayor has also asked police to enforce an 8:00 p.m. curfew and is considering calling in the Ohio National Guard.

Commentator Austin Bay calms any fears that America's recent spy scandals with Russia and China signal a return to the Cold War.

NPR's Emily Harris reports that descendants of Thomas Jefferson are publishing a report that attempts to disprove Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves. They're trying to counter recent DNA tests which tied a descendant of Jefferson to the family of Hemings.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Noah Adams, a host of NPR's All Things Considered and author of a new book, Far Appalachia: Following the New River North. Adams spent a year travelling the course of the New River through North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, and writes of its people, history, and the $5 plane rides one old-timer offered over the rivers' deep gorge.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on a human rights trial underway in Guatemala that will test the independence of the country's judiciary system.