The company that turns your credit history into what’s known as a FICO score is updating how that number is calculated. These scores are used to determine whether you can receive a new credit card, or get a home or auto loan. Jill Schlesinger joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss a new report that shows the average U.S. FICO score hit an all-time high of 703 last year. Source
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Mickey Smith Jr. wins Grammys’ 2020 Music Educator Award
Mickey Smith Jr. leads about half of the entire student body of Maplewood Middle School in Sulphur, Louisiana in the school’s band, and has been growing the number since he started there 15 years ago. Source
Louisiana teacher Mickey Smith Jr. wins 2020 Grammy Music Educator Award
The band at Maplewood Middle School in Sulphur, Louisiana is so popular, about half the students there are members of it. The band’s leader, Mickey Smith Jr., was named the winner of this year’s Grammy Music Educator Award. Manuel Bojorquez speaks to students to find out what makes Smith such a good teacher. Source
LA Times writer describes fallout from Recording Academy feud with suspended CEO
Shocking allegations about the Recording Academy are threatening to overshadow the Grammy Awards, which air on CBS Sunday night. The group’s suspended CEO Deborah Dugan says the Grammy nomination system is ridge. Randy Lewis, a staff writer for the LA Times, broke this story and has been talking to artists and industry insiders about the fallout. He joins “CBS This Morning.” Source
Five Pro Bowls Later, Titans DL Jurrell Casey Loving His New Life, and His Role as “Mr. Bathtime”
Back in 2015, when Titans defensive lineman Jurrell Casey made his first Pro Bowl appearance, things were much different compared to this year’s trip – his fifth in a row. Source
20 states sue over rules governing 3D-printed guns
Law enforcement officials have been trying for years to draw attention to the dangers posed by so-called ghost guns, which contain no registration numbers that could be used to trace them. Source
Texas teen told he won’t be able to walk at graduation unless he cuts his dreadlocks
Controversy erupted at a school board meeting on MLK Day. Source
Pharmaceutical execs “got away with murder,” says mom of overdose victim
Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor was sentenced to five and a half years for his role in bribing doctors to prescribe Subsys. Source
Warren on balancing impeachment, the campaign trail and what’s “more important than politics”
2020 candidate and Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks to “CBS This Morning” from Washington, D.C. where the Senate is due to here President Trump’s lawyers begin their defense in the impeachment trial Saturday. Source
Teen accused of killing his family in argument over prom
Police in Lakeville, Indiana, say Jeff Pelley, 17, killed his family to make his 1989 prom night perfect. Source