Category Archives: KXEL News

Monday morning news headlines from the KXEL News Center: Iowa's unemployment rate remained at 3.7% in March, the same as the revised level in February. Iowa Workforce Development reported the stable u...

Hundreds of law enforcement officers from across Iowa and other states filed past the flag-draped casket of Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Jim Smith, who was shot and killed last week while trying to arrest a...

Funeral services will be held this morning in Independence for Iowa State Patrol Sergeant Jim Smith, who was killed during a standoff in Grundy Center last Friday night. Services will start at 10 a.m....

Waterloo Police are investigating an early morning shooting. Officers responded to the 1600 block of Franklin Street at 1 o'clock early this morning; that's where the shooting occurred. The shooting l...

With significant numbers of Iowans already showing a hesitancy to get a coronavirus shot, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is expressing concern that the pause in use of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson va...

LAST WEEK, IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS DREW ATTENTION FOR SAYING THE STATE WOULD NOT ACCEPT UNACCOMPANIED MINOR CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN CROWDED INTO INADEQUATE HOLDING FACILITIES NEAR THE SOUTHERN BORDE...

Iowa public health officials say they are temporarily stopping the use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine as federal health agencies investigate incidents of rare blood clots. The Iowa D...

A SIOUX CITY REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR IS INTRODUCING HIMSELF TO A WIDER SWATH OF IOWANS AHEAD OF A PLANNED PRIMARY CHALLENGE TO U.S. SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY IN THE 2022 REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. JIM CARLIN W...

One of two inmates accused of killing two prison workers at the Anamosa State Penitentiary last month has entered a plea of not guilty in the case. Michael Dutcher filed a written plea ahead of yester...

HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CROWDED A ROADSIDE IN INDEPENDENCE ON SUNDAY AS A PROCESSION RETURNED THE BODY OF STATE PATROL SERGEANT JIM SMITH. OUR COVERAGE PARTNERS AT TV-9 TALKED WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE PAYING TH...