But there was a caring, apolitical gracefulness as well to Hortman, colleagues said. Garofalo said that in the days after the ...

Hortman, who was fatally shot early Saturday, was known as a champion of deeply progressive causes but also someone willing ...

Mark Hortman was shot and killed on June 14 alongside his wife, former House Speaker Melissa Hortman, in the family's ...

Hortman led House Democrats through some of the most difficult and consequential political times in recent Minnesota history.

Among Representative Melissa Hortman’s final votes in the Minnesota legislature was one she agonized over. Lawmakers in the evenly split chamber had been in a bitter standoff over a Republican ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — In the fall of 1998, a young attorney named Melissa Hortman made her first run for public office.

Their reason was to push back, they said, on violence and hate in light of the assassination of former speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.

The attack has been condemned by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as “an unspeakable tragedy” and a “political assassination.” Walz described Hortman as “a great leader” and “the dearest of friends.” ...

The Minnesota Republican Party has hit out at protesters picketing their state headquarters in Edina on Monday to accuse it of inflaming political violence and hatred with irresponsible rhetoric ...

Lawmakers and officials, both local and national, are issuing statements expressing shock and outrage over the shooting deaths​ of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman​ and her husband.

The murder of Melissa Hortman, the top Democrat in the Minnesota House, left a legislative chamber that had been evenly divided between the parties with a one-vote Republican majority.

"The whole Republican Party is just one corruption machine," he wrote on Facebook in 2023. In 2009, Melissa Hortman wrote on his page, "I liked the profile picture with you and your wife : )" His ...