—From Franklin, Tenn.

Earthquake: A 7.3 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal today as it is still recovering from the devastating 7.8 quake that killed 8,000 people three weeks ago. It’s early, but there are reports of collapsed buildings and at least 42 people dead.

The Brady Bench: New England quarterback Tom Brady was suspended for four games next season while his team was fined $1 million and docked a #1 draft pick in 2016 for playing last January with under-inflated footballs. “Your actions as set forth in the [Wells] report clearly constitute conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in the game of professional football,’’ the NFL’s chief of football operations, Troy Vincent, said in a letter to Brady.

The Wells report said Brady refused to fully cooperate, while two locker room employees responsible for the team’s game balls who did talk were suspended indefinitely. Brady is a standup quarterback.

Boston Bomber: A prominent nun who crusades against the death penalty told the court that Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told her “no one deserves to suffer” as did the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Sister Helen Prejean, 76, was the last witness in the defense effort to spare Tsarnaev the death penalty.

“He said it emphatically. He said no one deserves to suffer like they did,” said the 76-year-old nun, Sister Prejean. She said, “I had every reason to think that he was taking it in and that he was genuinely sorry for what he did.”

Nation: The Obama Administration gave Shell oil conditional permission to drill of the Alaskan coast this summer. It’s big for the oil industry.

>Verizon has reached a deal to buy AOL for $4.4 billion. AOL once bought Time Warner for $165 billion at the height of the dotcom frenzy and you can see the results of that.

>The Fox network announced that after 14 years the next season of American Idol, the once wildly popular music competition show, will be its last.

Do You Know the Way?: The median price for a previously owned home in San Jose, Calif. has hit $900,000, up more than 11 percent from last year, according to the National Assn. of Realtors. That means there are as many houses that cost more as cost less. People earn more in San Jose and employment has risen at twice the national average.

The Obit Page: Chris Burden, a conceptual artist who was prominent in the 1970s, has died of melanoma in California. In the pursuit of art, Burden had himself shot, stabbed, cut by glass, dropped, and nearly drowned. Burden was one of the first artists who became the art. Los Angeles Magazine called him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”

Carolyn’s Eggs: If you’ve never had one of Carolyn Truscott’s eggs, you’ve never eaten a real egg. The yolks are nearly orange and any way you eat them the eggs have a deep and rich flavor that opens your palate to what an egg should taste like.

These ain’t factory eggs.

On her little farm in Franklin, Tenn., south of Nashville, Carolyn cultivates a variety of unusual chickens: Aracauna, Welsummer, Olive-eggers, Polish, Sultans, ModernBB Redgames, and Salmon Faverolles, the only chickens that have five toes on each foot.

Here, a chicken is not just a chicken and neither are the eggs. They come in colors ranging from Robin’s egg blue, pastel blue, army green, mahogany brown with black spots, lavender, pastel green, pale pink and speckled brown. It’s as if they have already been artfully colored for Easter. “And I can tell you which chicken lays which egg,” Carolyn says.

And she says, “Occasionally I get a rainbow egg I can sell for ten dollars.”

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