Category Archives: KXEL News

A 19-YEAR-OLD IS NOW CHARGED AFTER AN EARLY SUNDAY MORNING SHOOTING IN DOWNTOWN IOWA CITY. ANDRE ROBERTS JR IS FROM CEDAR RAPIDS. HE IS ALLEGEDLY THE GUNMAN SEEN ON SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FIRING SEVERAL R...

A Linn County jury has convicted a man of stabbing a Cedar Rapids man to death and burying his body in apparent retaliation for theft from a drug dealer. Drew Blahnik was convicted late yesterday of s...

A SHOOTING IN THE NORTHWEST QUADRANT OF CEDAR RAPIDS INJURED ONE MAN ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. POLICE VISITED THE SCENE IN THE 900 BLOCK OF C AVENUE NORTHWEST AFTER THE WOUNDED MAN ARRIVED AT A HOSPITAL IN ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says it's likely Iowa taxpayers will pay the cost of sending 28 Iowa Department of Public Safety officers to assist Texas officials at the U.S./Mexico border from July 10 throug...

FACE COVERINGS MAY BE ABOUT TO BECOME MORE COMMON IN PUBLIC SPACES. THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION ADVISED THAT PEOPLE IN AREAS WITH SUBSTANTIAL VIRUS TRANSMISSION SHOULD WEAR MASKS IN...

There are now four Second Amendment Sanctuary counties in Iowa...after the Boards of Supervisors in both Madison and Cedar counties approved resolutions on the topic yesterday. The resolutions prevent...

GUN CRIMES HAVE BEEN UP IN IOWA CITY. AFTER NEARLY QUADRUPLING LAST YEAR, THIS YEAR'S COUNT OF "SHOTS FIRED" INCIDENTS ARE ON PACE TO BE RIGHT BACK NEAR THE SAME LEVEL. IOWA CITY POLICE CHIEF DUSTIN L...

A Linn County jury will resume deliberations today in the trial of Drew Blahnik. He's charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and obstructing prosecution in connection with the 2018 stabb...

AN OVERNIGHT FIGHT IN DOWNTOWN IOWA CITY TURNED INTO A SHOOTING INCIDENT WHICH INJURED TWO PEOPLE SHORTLY AFTER 1 A.M. ON SUNDAY. SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM THE SCENE SHOWS ONE PERSON ON THE PERIPHERY OF...

More than 100 people gathered outside the Iowa State Capitol Saturday to rally against mandates requiring people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, such as the ones some Iowa hospitals have issued. O...