Category Archives: KXEL News

A FATAL SHOOTING NEAR MARTELLE IN RURAL JONES COUNTY TUESDAY MAY HAVE BEEN AN INSTANCE OF "SUICIDE BY OFFICER." THE CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE SPOKE TO THE FAMILY OF 45-YEAR-OLD JEREMY BERG. SOME RELATIVES ...

From the Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A federal judge is ordering a prominent participant in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to return to jail, saying he violated his pretrial release...

45-YEAR-OLD JEREMY BERG OF ELKPORT WAS THE MAN WHO WAS FATALLY SHOT DURING A CONFRONTATION WITH POLICE AND DEPUTIES AT THE SCENE OF A FIRE IN RURAL JONES COUNTY LATE TUESDAY. BERG WAS PUBLICLY IDENTIF...

A new monthly survey of business leaders suggests the economy keeps operating at a healthy pace in Iowa and eight other Midwest and Plains states, but supply delays and shortages of workers are limiti...

STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FIRE INVESTIGATORS MADE THEIR WAY TO RURAL JONES COUNTY FOLLOWING A FATAL SHOOTING LATE TUESDAY. A FIRE WAS INITIALLY REPORTED SOUTH OF MARTELLE. FIRST RESPONDERS ENCOUNTERED...

The situation surrounding a train derailment in Chickasaw County has been downgraded from an emergency scene to an industrial worksite. Authorities said Tuesday that crews removed 4,900 gallons of aqu...

A RAPIDLY-RISING WAPSIPINICON RIVER WILL CLIMB TO FLOOD STAGE IN INDEPENDENCE TODAY. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS MAJOR FLOODING, WITH AN OVERNIGHT CREST MORE THAN FOUR FEET ABOVE WHAT OFFIC...

The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan yesterday, nearly a day before a Biden Administration deadline of this afternoon Iowa time for the departure. U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst is a retired lieutenant colonel...

AFTER SPENDING MUCH OF 2021 IN DROUGHT, HEAVY STORMS LAST WEEK MEAN FLOODING CONCERNS. ON THE WAPSIPINICON RIVER, LEVELS CRESTED IN TRIPOLI SUNDAY JUST INCHES SHY OF A RECORD. THE TURKEY RIVER NEAR EL...

Hundreds of employees in the UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's healthcare system, as well as patients, lined up on the corners of First Avenue and 10th Street in Cedar Rapids Saturday to protest a vaccine ...