Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband will lie in state after they were killed in what authorities called a political assassination.

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

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

Memorial plans have been shared for the Minnesota couple killed in what authorities are calling a politically-motivated ...

Lawmakers and the public gathered at the State Capitol Wednesday night to honor Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, ...

Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman, State Sen. John Hoffman and their spouses were all shot early Saturday in targeted ...

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.

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. ... Ms. Hortman’s Republican counterpart, ... the two party leaders huddled for a moment.

Melissa Hortman’ s influence at the Minnesota Capitol and her power as a Democratic leader to shape the course of a deeply ...

Representative Melissa Hortman was the top Democratic lawmaker in the Minnesota House, and a former Speaker of the House.

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.” ...