Category Archives: KXEL News

From the Associated Press WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - Waterloo's black police chief says his 15-month tenure is a "case study" for what leaders face as they make overdue changes to improve policing and comm...

From the Associated Press: DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa's four congressional districts would include two that lean heavily toward Republicans, one that favors Democrats and one that both parties would...

From the Associated Press (11:20 a.m.) DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa is expected to receive 695 Afghan evacuees from the first group of arrivals to be resettled in the United States. The Biden administ...

From the Associated Press: DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa is expected to receive 695 Afghan evacuees from the first group of arrivals to be resettled in the United States. The Biden administration on We...

From the Associated Press (11:20 a.m.) BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa man accused of suffocating his brother to death has been charged with attempted murder. Todd Alan Laing Sr. of Bettendorf, Iowa, ...

From the Associated Press: DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has set a special legislative session for Oct. 5 to approve redrawn legislative and congressional district maps. And the chief...

From the Associated Press (11:20 a.m.) MOUNT AYR, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa woman whose husband died from a breakthrough COVID-19 infection is blaming Americans who refuse to mask or get vaccinated. The Des...

From the Associated Press: DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A federal judge has ordered the state of Iowa to immediately halt enforcement of a law that prevents school boards from ordering masks to be worn to ...

From the Associated Press (11:20 a.m.) DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Police are investigating after a woman was killed at a Des Moines home. Police say in a news release that someone called police around 8:...

From the Associated Press: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Hospitals in Iowa's second-largest city are limiting elective procedures because of increased numbers of patients driven partly by a surge in COVID...