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Minnesota lawmaker shootings: Sen. Hoffman’s wife shares details about recovery

June 15, 2025

KVRR Staff,

Courtesy: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) / Facebook(FOX 9) – Minnesota Sen. John Hoffman’s wife, Yvette, sent an update to U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar on their condition after being shot multiple times Saturday. In a text from Yvette that Sen. Klobuchar posted to Facebook, she says Sen. Hoffman was shot nine times, and is “enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to…

‘No Kings’ Protest Goes on in Fargo Despite Minnesota Attacks

State Senator Tim Mathern attended, saying it was important to stay strong and not give in to fear.

June 15, 2025

Gabriel Ostler,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – The area in front of Fargo City hall stretching towards the convention center and library began to fill at around noon on June 14, and only grew as the day wore on. Organizers estimate over 3,000 people showed up to voice their discontent with Donald Trump’s birthday celebration and his administration’s policies. Plenty planned to gather…

UPDATE: Vance Boelter arrested sources tell FOX 9

June 15, 2025

TJ Nelson, KVRR Staff,

Courtesy FOX 9UPDATE (9:30 PM) Vance Boelter has been arrested alive, sources are confirming with FOX 9. Boelter is the suspect who assassinated Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and injured Sen. John Hoffman and his wife. Rep. Hortman and her husband Mark were fatally shot in their Brooklyn Park home early Saturday morning. Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were…

Sen. Nicole Mitchell’s trial postponed due to lawmaker shootings

June 15, 2025

KVRR Staff,

State Sen. Nicole Mitchell (D) Woodbury, Minn.BECKER COUNTY, Minn. (FOX 9) – The trial of Minnesota Sen. Nicole Mitchell has been postponed due to the shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses. Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday in Sen. Mitchell’s trial, but it has been postponed due to the fatal shooting of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and…

Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith contemplates increased security after shooting of Democratic lawmakers

June 15, 2025

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Lawmakers on Sunday continued to reel from the shooting of two Democratic Minnesota state legislators in their homes that led to the death of one and her husband, contemplating a previously unthinkable world where democratically-elected representatives need full-time security details to protect them from the public. “I don’t want to think that I have to a personal security detail everywhere I go,…

Search for suspect in shooting of 2 Minnesota lawmakers leads to one of his vehicles in rural area

June 15, 2025

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This image provided by the FBI on Saturday, June 14, 2025, shows part of a poster with photos of Vance L. Boelter. (FBI via AP)BELLE PLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Authorities searched a vehicle on a rural road outside Minneapolis on Sunday that they believe had been used by the man wanted in the shootings of two Democratic lawmakers, as a state…

UPDATE: Two Minnesota Lawmakers Shot, One Killed in Early Morning Attacks

Authorities say the shooter may have been impersonating a police officer.

June 14, 2025

Gabriel Ostler,

Rep. Hortman and Sen. Hoffman, respectively.MINNEAPOLIS, MN – According to multiple media outlets, two Minnesota lawmakers, Rep. Melissa Hortman and Sen. John Hoffman, were shot inside their homes in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, in coordinated early-morning attacks. Both are Democrats. Both lawmakers’ spouses were shot in the attacks as well. The Brooklyn Park Police Department sent out a shelter-in-place…

Sen. Smith calls on Noem to resign after California Sen. Padilla is handcuffed during press conference

June 12, 2025

KVRR Staff,

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) being handcuffed outside Secretary Noem’s press conference.WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR/CNN) — Sen. Alex Padilla of California said he had been attempting to ask a question when he was forcefully removed from a press conference held by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles Thursday. “I was there peacefully. At one point I had a…

Minnesota legislature creates new state office to mediate HOA disputes

June 12, 2025

KVRR Staff,

Homeowners and supporters gather to protest proposed legislation that would place new restrictions on the the reach of HOAs Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at the Minnesota State Capitol Building. (Nicole Neri/The Minnesota Reformer)ST. PAUL (Minnesota Reformer) — An effort to pass sweeping reforms to the laws governing homeowners’ associations and their property management companies largely failed in the Legislature this…

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With North Dakota Republican Party at a ‘crossroads,’ 3 candidates seek to be chair

June 12, 2025

KVRR Staff,

Judy Estenson, from left, Shane Goettle and Matthew Simon are candidates for chair of the North Dakota Republican Party. (Estenson photo provided by the North Dakota Legislative Assembly. Other photos provided by the candidates.)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A North Dakota Republican Party fixture and two relative newcomers are seeking to lead the state party during a time of…