Nearly 1,500 people gathered at the Basilica of St. Mary to hear the lives of Melissa and Mark Hortman honored with a healing ...

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 ...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris shared an emotional moment while attending the funeral service of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman ...

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

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 ...

Hortman was fatally shot two weeks earlier by a man posing as a police officer in an attack that Minnesota’s chief federal ...

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

The slain legislator pushed for an array of causes — from voting rights to free school meals — that benefited marginalized communities.