Indiana, Gary: The noise is growing louder over Indiana’s new “religious freedom” law, which is seen by critics across the country as a screen for discrimination against gays and lesbians.

In addition to demonstrators in the streets, nine corporate bosses sent a letter to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence demanding clarification of the law. The governors of Connecticut and Washington, as well as the mayor of San Francisco, have banned official travel to Indiana in protest.

Looming ahead as a target are the NCAA basketball finals to be played next week in Indianapolis.

At first vague and evasive about the law’s effect, Pence said, “If we have to make adjustments to this law to make it clear that this law was never intended to give businesses the right to turn away customers on the basis of sexual orientation, we will fix that.”

Boston Bomber: Prosecutors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev closed their case with gruesome images and the autopsy report on 8-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest to die. It was an attempt to to give the jury one last impression of the viciousness of the crime.

Richard, who was just four foot five inches tall and 69 pounds, was ripped nearly in half, his spine severed. He was peppered with nails, pellets, and fragments of wood. The medical examiner said there was no part of the boy’s body that was not hit. One juror covered her face when shown pictures.

The defense is expected to make a case that Tsarnaev acted under the spell of his brother. It’s unknown whether his lawyers will take the gamble of putting him on the stand.

The Feds: Two federal agents were charged yesterday with stealing or extorting more than a million dollars worth of Bitcoin digital currency while they were investigating the Silk Road drug market website.

DEA agent Carl Mark Force IV is accused of extorting $250,000 worth of Bitcoins from the administrator of Silk Road, in exchange for suppressing damaging information. Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges is charged with stealing $800,000 worth of Bitcoins he controlled during the investigation.

Nation: Investigators are still trying to figure out what happened yesterday when two men in an SUV tried to drive through gates at the National Security Agency in Maryland. One man was shot to death and the other grievously wounded. Both were dressed as women. Investigators found a gun and cocaine in the car.

Grooves: Rapper Jay Z yesterday announced the formation of an artist-owned streaming music service called Tidal that would go note for note with services like Pandora, Spotify, and eventually Apple.

Unlike other services that are free and pay musicians a pittance, Tidal will have two paid levels of quality. Jay Z said, “Water is free. Music is $6 but no one wants to pay for music. You should drink free water from the tap — it’s a beautiful thing. And if you want to hear the most beautiful song, then support the artist.”

Cheat Sheet: The Atlanta Falcons have been stripped of their fifth round draft pick next year because they piped extra noise into the stadium for a two-year period. Atlanta was 4-12 and 6-10 in the last two seasons, so evidently they didn’t want the team to hear their own quarterback.

>The general manager of the Cleveland Browns has been suspended for the first four games of next season for texting advice to team personnel in violation of the league’s rules against using electronic devices. Hmm. Aren’t those headsets and microphones on the coaches?

Law and Biology: In Arizona, where law is mightier than biology, the governor has signed an anti-abortion bill that will require doctors to tell women that a drug-induced abortion can be reversed. Could they also pass a law to reverse backward thinking?