The suspect in the Minnesota shootings targeting two lawmakers and their spouses is in court today. Former State Representative Ryan Winkler, who served with Melissa Hortman and was close friends with her,

Melissa Hortman’ s influence at the Minnesota Capitol and her power as a Democratic leader to shape the course of a deeply divided Legislature were a far cry from her job as a teenager making chili-cheese burritos and overshadowed her volunteer work training service dogs for veterans.

But there was a caring, apolitical gracefulness as well to Hortman, colleagues said. Garofalo said that in the days after the 2022 elections, when Democrats took control of state

A manhunt is underway in Minnesota for a gunman who shot and killed a state representative and wounded a senator in what authorities say was a “targeted” attack.

Democratic Sen. John Hoffman, his wife, and House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman were injured in what the governor describes as targeted shootings.