Associated Press

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman will lie in state in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda on Friday while the man charged with killing her and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, is due in court.

Vance Boelter was arrested and charged with two counts of murder and two of attempted murder.

The former lawmaker from Grand Rapids is currently scheduled to be released to a halfway house on Tuesday.

When the issue of gun violence came up at the vice presidential debate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had a personal story to tell: His teenage son, Gus, had been at a sports center last year when a shooting took place.

St. Paul firefighters pulled 6 children and their mother from the burning home early Wednesday morning.

Protesters carried signs Tuesday morning near the building site, saying “Find Them First” and “Who is in the Rubble?"