Boston: ABC and NBC News report that Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is awake and answering questions by handwriting. He is said to be unable to speak because of a gunshot wound to his throat.

  Boston’s police commissioner says Tsarnaev and his deceased brother, Tamerlan, had a large cache of weapons that suggested they might be planning more attacks after the Boston Marathon bombing. Commissioner Ed Davis said in television interviews that officers found unexploded homemade bombs and 250 rounds of ammunition at the site of a shootout in which Tsarnaev died. They also found multiple weapons, including an assault rifle.

Authorities have released thermal image video of the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He can be seen lying on the floor of a boat in a backyard. A robot with a mechanical arm peels back the winter shrink wrap covering the boat while several flash-bang grenades explode against the windshield. Eventually Tsarnaev gets up and out of the boat.

National: Spring rains have the Mississippi rising, putting parts of six Midwestern states under cresting floodwaters. More rain is coming.

• The billionaire Koch brothers, champions of conservative causes, are considering a play to buy the Tribune Company which owns the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. Tribune owns eight major papers valued at about $623 million and would be a small morsel for Koch Industries to swallow. Koch earns $115 billion a year and would use the papers to spread Charles and David Koch’s message of smaller government and less taxes.
• Five people are dead after a wild shooting at an apartment complex in Seattle. Police arrived to find three men on the ground in the parking lot and one reached for a gun. They shot him. The other two were dead. A search of the apartments revealed a dead man in one unit and a woman in another. So far, no word on what it was all about.

Tipsy: NBC Sports announcer Al Michaels was arrested for DUI in Santa Monica Friday night. Michaels, 68, is the play-by-play man for “Sunday Night Football”. He spent the night in the tank and was released Saturday.

Not to be outdone, actress Reese Witherspoon was arrested in Atlanta after her Hollywood agent husband James Toth was pulled over for DUI. Witherspoon kept getting out of the car against the orders of the officer, so he gave her a set of bracelets to match her husband’s.  She is reported to have asked, “Don’t you know who I am?”  Didn’t know, didn’t care.

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