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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Violence and fear swept through towns in an arc around Minneapolis for more than 40 hours over the weekend as a man seemingly intent on sowing political devastation killed one Minnesota state lawmaker and left another bleeding from nine bullet wounds.
Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith honored the late former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, on the Senate Floor on Tuesday, June 17.
Tuesday, June 17, at 4:30 p.m. CT, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith will deliver remarks on the Senate floor honoring the life and legacy of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
Following the attacks on two Minnesota politicians and their spouses over the weekend, President Donald Trump says he has no plans to reach out to Governor Tim Walz.
A candlelight vigil in remembrance of Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman will be held Wednesday on the steps of the State Capitol after the couple was slain in what authorities are calling a political assassination in their Brooklyn Park home.
Gov. Tim Walz called the event a “politically motivated assassination," with the attack marking the latest such incident over the last several years.
Just hours after House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded, top MAGA voices used those revelations to inaccurately paint Boelter as a Democrat.
In her last interview with the Pioneer Press, just days before she and her husband were fatally shot, state Rep. Melissa Hortman said that above all this summer she was looking forward to spending