Several Minnesota law enforcement agencies say a third party will evaluate their efforts and response of the June lawmaker shootings that killed former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and ...

Nearly five months after a string of politically motivated shootings shocked the state of Minnesota, a plan to have an outside agency review the law enforcement response to the attacks will be ...

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. — The leaders of multiple law enforcement agencies have hired an outside agency to review their response to the politically-motivated shootings that claimed the lives of House ...

The release of the 911 transcript from the shooting of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, reminds us of the haunting unanswered questions that remain regarding the law enforcement response ...

After Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot in a targeted attack, their children have spoken ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday slammed President Trump for not speaking compassionately about slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) after she and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their ...

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Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Fall 2025 Magazine. You can subscribe here. Doing big things in state government takes time. Few people knew that better than Melissa Hortman. By the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota House returned to its 67-67 tie Tuesday night in a special election to fill assassinated Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman’s seat in Brooklyn Park. Democrat and former ...

Over five months after he and his family were targeted in an apparent attempted assassination, Minnesota Senator John Hoffman shared a Thanksgiving message reflecting on the attack. In his message, ...

Rep. Zack Stephenson was chosen to lead the Minnesota House Democrats following the assassination of former leader Melissa Hortman. Stephenson, a longtime mentee of Hortman, will lead a caucus unified ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democrat Xp Lee won a special election Tuesday to fill the Minnesota House seat of a top Democratic leader who was assassinated, restoring a 67-67 tie and preserving a power-sharing ...