#WTLCIndyNews: Cold Temps In Indy Delay School Day For Some; Student Who Threatened Perry Meridian High Arrested, Second Freddie Gray Trial Gets Underway In Baltimore; Natalie Cole’s Funeral Today As World Mourns David Bowie

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Local:

Monday morning in Indy leaves residents with bitterly cold temps at the start of another work and school week. Those cold temps and snowy icy weather, caused some individual schools in the city to delay the start of class for two hours. Forecasters say today’s highs will be in the upper-20s, but morning temperatures are expected to be in the single digits. During the 8 a.m. hour, The Weather Channel listed temps between eight and ten degrees but feeling like three to one below zero.  It remains a day to bundle up.

Speaking of schools… WTHR-TV is reporting that an arrest has been made in the case of a weekend threat that came into Perry Meridian High School by way of social media over the weekend. Before the arrest was made officials had planned to go ahead with classes and step-up security measures. Students are on site at the school now. Superintendent Tom Little reached out with a message Monday morning saying that IMPD arrested a student who allegedly is the culprit. The message also said the student has been suspended and will eventually be expelled.

The fire chief of the Brownsburg Fire department has been arrested for drunk driving here in Indy. WTHR-TV is reporting that Fire Chief William Brown was arrested Sunday night around 8 p.m. after a crash in Indy’s downtown area. Brown is being held right now on preliminary charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated (OWI) in police custody. He was reportedly operating a Brownsburg city vehicle at the time of the incident.

In National News:

Questions continue to be raised about actor Sean Penn’s involvement with drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.  Penn interviewed El Chapo for an article published this weekend in “Rolling Stone,” just a day after the drug kingpin was recaptured following his escape from prison last July.  Mexico plans to extradite Guzman to the U.S.

The Baltimore Police officer who faces the most serious charges in the death of Freddie Gray will see his trial start today. Jury selection begins in the case of Officer Caesar Goodson, who is charged with second-degree depraved heart murder in Gray’s police custody death last April.

Tributes to iconic rocker David Bowie are pouring in this morning after the singer-songwriter’s death. Fans are leaving flowers and lighting candles outside Bowie’s New York City apartment today that he shared with his wife supermodel and cosmetics guru Iman. In one tribute, Kanye West tweeted that Bowie was one of his “most important inspirations.” In another, Singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams called him a true innovator. The British rocker and songwriter died Sunday after an 18-month battle with cancer surrounded by family. He was age 69.

Grammy Award-winning singer Natalie Cole will be laid to rest today in Los Angeles. A funeral will be held at the West Angeles Church of God in Christ before Cole is buried next to her parents, sister and brother in Glendale.Chaka Khan is expect to sing at the funeral. Cole died on New Year’s Eve at the age of 65.

The Revenant is the big winner in the 73rd Golden Globe Awards. The tale of survival and redemption in the early American West took the award for Best Motion Picture Drama and star Leonardo DiCaprio won the Best Actor award. The film, The Martian, took home the top trophy on the comedy film side and Matt Damon won Best Actor in a musical or comedy.

In Sports:

The NFL playoffs made history this weekend. For the first time ever under the current playoff format, all four road teams were winners on Wild Card weekend.  The Chiefs, Steelers, Seahawks and Packers all advanced to next weekend’s Divisional Round with road wins.

The wife of former Butler basketball stand-out Andrew Smith says doctors have told her his death is imminent. Samantha Smith posted on her blog this weekend “Andrew is going to die from this disease. There are no treatments, no clinical trials… there is nothing left to do.” Smith was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

Finally:

Powerball fever is heating up. No one won Saturday’s record-setting jackpot so the prize is surging north of one-billion-dollars. The next drawing is Wednesday and the jackpot has already risen to $1.3 billion. Right now, the jackpot has an estimated cash value of $806 million.

Indianapolis Weather:

Today, partly cloudy skies, with a high of 27 degrees. Tonight, expect a 50-percent chance of snow showers with accumulation of under an inch.

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