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

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

Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman was more than just the state House’s top Democrat, according to those who knew her. ...

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

A suspect is in custody after Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot Saturday, while state ...

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.

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

Three days before she was killed by an assassin targeting Minnesota Democrats, Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman told me she thought work in the Legislature was becoming harder because Republicans were ...

"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 ...

Melissa and Mark Hortman attend at Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer Labor Party’s annual Humphrey ... Jim Abeler is a Republican from Anoka, John Hoffman is a Democrat from Champlin, and Jeremy ...