Category Archives: KXEL News

Today, it's called the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center...but it might be called something else soon. If approved by Waterloo City Council at its meeting tonight, the downtown facility could b...

GIFT CARDS STOLEN FROM A CEDAR RAPIDS SALVATION ARMY OFFICE HAVE LED TO CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST A MAN AND WOMAN FROM MARION. MATTHEW CRONIN WAS EMPLOYED BY THE SALVATION ARMY WHEN MORE THAN 26 THOUSA...

Iowa Workforce Development reports an increase in initial unemployment claims last week...while continuing claims dropped. There were 504 more new unemployment claims last week than the week before, f...

FOLLOWING A FATAL PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT IN OELWEIN TUESDAY, THE NAME OF THE VICTIM WAS RELEASED WEDNESDAY. JACQUELINE LENSING WAS HIT WHILE CROUCHED IN FRONT OF A VEHICLE PULLING OUT OF A PARKING SPACE....

Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden has cleared of wrongdoing a Cedar Rapids police officer who fatally shot a man suspected of stabbing a woman to death. The prosecutor found Officer Kyzer Moore...

THE IOWA STATE PATROL DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RELEASE A NAME...AND HAS NOT SAID WHY A PERSON WAS CROUCHED IN FRONT OF A CAR BEFORE A FATAL ACCIDENT LAST NIGHT IN OELWEIN. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED SHORTLY BEF...

Gov. Kim Reynolds has announced that Iowa will join a number of states ending pandemic-related federal programs that give extra cash to unemployed workers. Reynolds announced the change yesterday in a...

A WATERLOO MAN DIDN'T WAIT LONG TO CLAIM A WEEKEND LOTTERY PRIZE. THE WINNING POWERBALL NUMBERS WERE SELECTED ON SATURDAY NIGHT; MONDAY, ANTON GARRETT WAS AT THE LOTTERY'S MAIN OFFICE IN CLIVE TO PICK...

Gov. Kim Reynolds has removed the chief executive of the state's home for veterans and their spouses, just months after praising his response to the coronavirus pandemic. Reynolds' spokesperson, Pat G...

IOWA LEGISLATORS REMAIN IN DES MOINES TODAY. AS THE SECOND WORK WEEK IN MAY BEGINS, BUDGET QUESTIONS CONTINUE TO TOP THE SESSION'S LIST OF UNRESOLVED ISSUES. RECENTLY ON KXEL, STATE SENATOR CRAIG JOHN...