Melissa Hortman's rise was notable for steady progression up the ranks built in large part on an ability to forge ...

Rep. Hortman, who served a six-year stint as House Speaker, was a longtime leader of the DFL caucus and one of Minnesota's most influential politicians.

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 ...

Melissa Hortman, the top Democratic leader in the Minnesota House, was shot and killed along with her husband by a gunman on ...

A dedicated volunteer who taught Sunday school and loved dogs. A lawyer who served as a Girl Scout leader and worked at her ...

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

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

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.

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

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.