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Look for lots of high temperatures in the 80s to low 90s — but cooler near Lake Superior — this coming week. The Twin Cities metro area is likely to warm into the upper 80s and low 90s every day this week. Get the latest on Updraft.

🎙️Coming up on Morning Edition: Minnesotans will be able to grow their own cannabis plants starting in August. Businesses are popping up to sell them what they need, but they're scrambling to figure out who will be allowed to sell seeds and how the state will regulate those sales.

🎧At 9 a.m., MPR News host Angela Davis will talk to J.D. Steele about his music career and current projects — directing community choirs and inspiring the next generation to sing with soul.
 
At Shakopee prison, women grieve lost children, work toward redemption

Most incarcerated women in Minnesota have children. A new support group at Minnesota Correctional Facility - Shakopee is tailored to the specific grief these women feel that's often overlooked by society.

The support group at Shakopee may be the first of its kind aimed at a prison population. The hope is that by coming to terms with these losses — and the guilt associated with them — incarcerated people will develop the coping skills they need to stay out of jail in the future.

As cannabis legalization approaches in Minnesota, local businesses prepare for home growers

In just a couple of months, Minnesotans will be able to grow their cannabis and local businesses are eager to help them get started.

But there is one thing businesses can’t sell yet — cannabis seed.

 
What else we're watching:
Generations of Minnesotans remember sacrifice of service members at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. A solemn ceremony honoring fallen Minnesota troops Monday touched on service through generations. 

State lawmakers include $7M in bonding bill for St. Cloud children's museum. The idea for the Great River Children's Museum has been in the works since 2012.

Authorities ID teen who drowned in St. Croix River at Interstate State Park. A body pulled from the St. Croix River near Taylor Falls on Saturday was identified as a missing 18-year-old Wisconsin man.

Rare bear attack injures woman near Nisswa. It happened at a cabin near Gull Lake on Friday shortly after midnight after a woman let her dog outside.

- Anna Haecherl, MPR News
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