MPR News PM Update
Jan. 28, 2020

Cooldown with flurries before a big warmup. The light snow in western Minnesota continues overnight, and there could be a few flurries across the state again Wednesday morning. Temps have dropped a bit to the upper teens to mid-20s across Minnesota, but this weekend, we may see highs in the 40s in southern Minnesota. Stay tuned!

An investigation raises questions about whether a black man was wrongfully convicted in a case Amy Klobuchar prosecuted. Myon Burrell, now 33, was put behind bars for life in the 2002 killing of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards -- by then-Hennepin County Attorney Klobuchar. But what if Burrell is innocent? An AP investigation into the 17-year-old case uncovered new evidence and myriad inconsistencies raising questions about whether the teen was wrongfully convicted.

This Minneapolis family is already affected by the coronavirus outbreak from China. Yulin Yin arrived in Wuhan last week to visit his family and friends. His wife says he didn’t see cause for alarm when he first got there. Yin is still scheduled to return to the U.S. in two weeks, his wife says, but a welcome hug will likely need to wait a week or two. 

Rising St. Paul rapper Lexii Alijai died of overdose, autopsy finds. The 21-year-old rising star in the Twin Cities music scene died on New Year’s Day from a mix of alcohol together with the powerful painkiller fentanyl, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner says. The department ruled her death as an accident.

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