Cracking cold, top-3 ranking, People's Choice Awards

Good morning, Baltimore!

Find updates on the weather and traffic conditions here via The Sun's live blog here. Here's everything else you need to know to start your day:

WEATHER

As they say in New England, "It's cracking cold," which means when you walk across a wooden porch, it creaks. With temperatures in the teens and blustery west winds between 10 and 20 mph. today, it'll feel like single digits, so bundle up. Also, cheer up, at least there is no snow in the immediate forecast.

TRAFFIC

Get the latest on delays for this morning’s commute from baltimoresun.com

FROM LAST NIGHT

Former Ravens cheerleader and Baltimore socialite, Molly Shattuck, 47, a mother of three and former wife of Mayo A. Shattuck III, chairman of Exelon , is set to go on trial March 23 in a Delaware courtroom after being charged with raping a 15-year-old McDonogh student last year.

The Board of Public Works approved Gov. Martin O’Malley’s plan to cut $205 million, coupled with special fund transfers and other actions, to bring the budget back into balance before Republican Gov.-elect Larry Hogan is sworn in Jan. 21.

Kent Conley Sadler, 31, of Tilghman Island, the third of four waterman involved in a rockfish poaching scheme, was ordered to spend 30 days in jail and pay $25,000 in fines.

TODAY'S FRONT PAGE

Masked gunman stormed the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper that had caricatured Prophet Muhammad, yesterday and killed 12 staff members.

Law enforcement officers in Baltimore moved Wednesday to beef up security at city police stations after Jason Armstrong, 29, entered the Northeastern District station carrying a loaded gun.

Maryland fell from its ranking as the No. 1 state in public education on Thursday, but which was brought about by a change in the ranking criteria and not because of any slide in performance.

Two men pleaded guilty Wednesday in a murder-for-hire case that was at the heart of a national debate over the use ofsecretive cellphone tracking tools known as a "stingray."

As the Ravens and Patriots prepare for their playoff game Saturday in Foxborough, Mass., a rivalry of sorts has risen between Baltimore and Boston over bragging rights to poet Edgar Allan Poe.

WHAT'S TRENDING

French authorities say two suspects remain at large and one has surrendered after the group killed 12 people at the office of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday.

Police in Colorado continue to investigate the motive in the NAACP bombing in the Colorado Springs office Tuesday morning.

See if your favorites won at the People's Choice Awards last night.

Cracking cold, top-3 ranking, People's Choice Awards

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