Category Archives: KXEL News

THE CORONAVIRUS MADE ITS FIRST VERIFIED APPEARANCE IN IOWA LESS THAN 12 MONTHS AGO. DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS SIZED UP THE CHALLENGES COVID-19 HAS CAUSED IN A RE...

Police responded to a car chase turned standoff in North Liberty Thursday, but it all ended peacefully with a suspect in custody around 6:30 p.m. Police said a suicidal man reported to have weapons wa...

AS EXPECTED, THE IOWA HOUSE HAS PASSED VOTING CHANGES APPROVED EARLIER THIS WEEK BY THE IOWA SENATE. THE UPDATED RULES MOVED THROUGH THE CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY. A SHORTER WINDOW FOR EARLY VOTING, SHORTE...

Ames Police say an autopsy shows the death last month of a 21-year-old woman outside an Iowa State University sorority house was caused by acute alcohol intoxication and hypothermia. Emergency respond...

THE SUSPECT IN A FATAL WEEKEND STABBING IN CEDAR RAPIDS DIED ON TUESDAY. POLICE SHOT 39-YEAR-OLD ARNELL STATES SATURDAY AS HE RAN FROM A MOTEL WHERE TWO WOMEN HAD BEEN STABBED. NO MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME...

The U.S. Senate voted 92-7 yesterday to confirm Tom Vilsack as U.S. Agriculture Secretary. The 70-year-old former Iowa governor spent eight years leading the same department in the Obama Administratio...

THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD KATRINA BRINSON WAS THE WOMAN FATALLY STABBED AT A CEDAR RAPIDS MOTEL ON SATURDAY. POLICE ANNOUNCED BRINSON'S IDENTITY ON MONDAY. ANOTHER WOMAN WAS INJURED AND THE MALE SUSPECT IN...

A plan to develop a casino in Cedar Rapids could be considered by voters later this year. According to the Linn County Auditor’s Office, voters could see a gambling referendum appear on the ball...

SNOW WAS BEGINNING TO FALL SUNDAY WHEN A COLLISION HAPPENED NORTH OF WATERLOO, SENDING ONE PERSON FROM EACH OF THE INVOLVED VEHICLES TO ALLEN HOSPITAL. THE ACCIDENT WAS ON DUNKERTON ROAD NEAR THE IOWA...

One woman is dead and another is injured after being stabbed at a Cedar Rapids motel, and a man suspected in the altercation is hospitalized after being shot by a police officer. Cedar Rapids officers...