Category Archives: KXEL News

A federal judge has denied an Iowa drug kingpin’s requests to delay his execution, which is scheduled for Friday. U.S. District Judge Leonard Strand wrote Tuesday that he would not intervene to ...

Iowa Auditor Rob Sand says the Test Iowa program brought to the state under a $28 million no-bid contract is violating state law in the way it handles test results data. Sand, a Democrat, says Test Io...

Iowa Auditor Rob Sand says the Test Iowa program brought to the state under a $28 million no-bid contract by Gov. Kim Reynolds on recommendation from actor Ashton Kutcher is violating state law in the...

Cedar Rapids Police Department have released the identity of the man killed Sunday in a shooting at the Summit View Village in Cedar Rapids. He was 19-year-old Keyshawn Allers of Palo. Officers found ...

Des Moines Black Lives Matter protesters are calling for Governor Reynolds to sign a felon voting rights executive order immediately. To help spur her on, the group posted a draft executive order on T...

Cedar Rapids police are investigating three separate shooting incidents in the city in an 18-hour period over the weekend. In the most recent incident, police are still looking for the man they say sh...

MICHAEL JENSEN, THE MAN WHO WALKED AWAY FROM RAVENWOOD SPECIALTY CARE MONDAY, WAS FOUND IN A WATER-FILLED DITCH OFF SAN MARNAN ROAD IN WATERLOO FRIDAY MORNING. HE WAS HOSPITALIZED IN SERIOUS CONDITION...

New Iowa unemployment claims rose by nearly 3,000 from the previous week but the continuing claims decreased by more than 6,500 according to Iowa Workforce Development. The new numbers released Thursd...

IOWA'S REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN WANTS TO HEAR MORE FROM THE DEMOCRATIC SENATE NOMINEE. STATE GOP CHAIRMAN JEFF KAUFMANN HAS BEEN CRITICAL OF DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER THERESA GREENFIELD FOR NOT AGREEING ...

Not long ago, GOP U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst challenged her Democrat challenger Theresa Greenfield to a series of six debates...two each in August, September, and October. But Greenfield has failed to agree...