THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Singer/songwriter Glenn Frey, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Eagles, has died age 67.
- Last week was a rough one for Celine Dion. Two days after losing her husband to cancer, her 59-year-old brother Daniel passed away after fighting brain, tongue and throat cancer.
- Not only does that "X-Files" mini-series hit FOX next Sunday, but Chris Carter has actually written a third "X-Files" movie. Could be more in the future.
- Chick-fil-A announced its replacing coleslaw on its menu with a kale salad.
- Spike Lee says he's boycotting the Oscars this year because of the lack of diversity among it's nominees. Will Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett has also said she'll boycott. And now there's pressure for host Chris Rock to drop out to show support to the cause.
- The WhatsApp app is going to drop it's $1-a-year fee.
- Betty White turned 94 over the weekend and was still part of the FOX pre-game show for the Seahawks/Panthers game.
- Gas has dropped to under 80-cents a gallon in Michigan at a lot of stations. One has it for just 46-cents a gallon.
- Madonna showed up on stage 3-hours late in Louisville for her concert on Saturday night... and some say, she was drunk.
- One expert is predicting that 5 million jobs will be lost to robots and artificial intelligence by the year 2020.
- A man in Portland stole a 2-foot python from a pet store by putting it in his pants.
- "Straight Outta Compton" only got one Oscar nomination and it went to the screenwriters -- who are both white.
- The federal government wants to drop the legal driving limit to one drink by lowering the blood alcohol limit to .05 percent.
- A school teacher in New Jersey says she has no plans to retire, even though she's 102-years-old.
- Boston mobster Enrico Ponzo is set to go on trial after hiding out posing as an Idaho rancher for more than a decade.
- United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz is recovering after receiving a heart transplant.
- A survey says that 1 in 3 U.S. consumers use Windows 10.
- Don McLean, the singer of "American Pie," was arrested Monday on suspicion of domestic violence.
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