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The week will start mild with spotty showers north Monday. Thunderstorms and rain will be possible midweek with a big drop in temps coming to end the week along with possible snow. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.

Coming up on  Morning Edition: House Republicans will try again this week to pick a speaker, and this time Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer has thrown his  hat into the ring. Over the weekend, Emmer said on social media that he is seeking the nomination in an effort to bring the Republican conference together.

Coming up at 9 a.m.:, MPR News host Angela Davis talks about why wrongful convictions happen, their impact on lives and how more can be prevented. She’ll talk with an attorney and a Minnesota man who spent nearly seven years in prison for a crime of which he was fully exonerated in 2011.

And we want to hear from you, too.  Have you or someone you know ever been wrongfully convicted and then exonerated of a crime? Or do you have a question about how wrongful convictions happen or the appeals process? Call 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828 during the 9 a.m. hour.  

 
Ex-cop faces sentencing for 2020 assault

A former Minneapolis police officer who assaulted a man during the 2020 riots faces sentencing Monday. Justin Stetson admitted to punching and kicking Jaleel Stallings, who fired his pistol at an unmarked van, but surrendered as soon has he realized that police were inside.

 
Plan now to ease disruptions with the end of daylight saving time

While doctors say the fall disruption is milder compared to the spring, the time change can still have impacts. The earlier you prepare, the better.

“It's easy to sleep in an extra hour, most of us can do that really easily, but it's not as easy to change the time that we go to bed. And so we tend to see a little bit of sleep deprivation as a consequence of that,” said Dr. Andrew Stiehm, a pulmonary and sleep medicine physician at Allina Health.

 
What else we're watching:
Sunday morning shooting in St. Cloud kills 1, injures 2 others. Officials are investigating a shooting in St. Cloud early Sunday morning that led to the death of a man and injuring two others.

Public meetings planned on power line between Iron Range, central Minnesota. Minnesota Power and Great River Energy want to build the 180-mile, high-voltage line that would run from the Iron Range to Benton County, then along two different routes to substations near Becker.

Black authors expo uplifts writers, promotes healing through storytelling. The expo started in 2017, first hosted at the NEON building in north Minneapolis. Attendance has quadrupled over the years, according to organizers. Saturday’s event marked its first in-person expo since the start of the pandemic.

Xcel Energy seeks to grow wind energy in southwest Minnesota. The Minneapolis-based utility is asking for proposals for about 1,200 megawatts of new wind projects. That’s enough to power more than 485,000 homes in an average year. 

U of M researchers want your videos of deer-gut scavengers. University of Minnesota researchers want hunters’ videos of their deer guts — part of a broader effort to learn about the different scavengers who eat them, and the role those millions of pounds of deer guts left behind every year play in the ecosystem.

A seasonal viral stew is brewing with flu, RSV, COVID and more. National data shows COVID-19 levels are moderate. In most of the U.S., levels of other respiratory viruses are low, although RSV is ticking up in some southeastern states.
 
— Matt Mikus, MPR News


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