As spring slowly creeps in across Minnesota, Sophie Hortman is thinking about trips to the garden center with her mother, Melissa Hortman. It’s the first legislative session without the former ...

Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark are being mourned after being fatally shot at their home overnight Saturday, while state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded in a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Minnesota Democrat Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband have ...

The calm of an affluent cul-de-sac, north of Minneapolis, has been shattered. Yellow tape, establishing a police cordon, now marks it as the scene of a double murder. Former state speaker Melissa ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting. The ...

Two U.S. lawmakers and their spouses were shot this weekend in a "targeted" attack. On Saturday morning, a shelter-in-place alert was issued in Minnesota because shootings were reported in Champlin ...

Should campaign funds be used to boost candidates' security? RI Senate says yes.

State lawmakers across the U.S. are increasing security measures as political violence rises. Much of the impetus has come from the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman in Minnesota last June.

President Donald Trump said he would have lowered American flags to half-staff in the aftermath of state Rep. Melissa Hortman’s assassination if Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had asked him to. Trump, who ...

Minnesota Democrats are condemning a group of conservative activists for using an offensive AI-generated photo of the late Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last summer. The image ...