Category Archives: KXEL News
KXEL Morning News for Fri. Jul. 22, 2022
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Lottery officials have raised the Mega Millions grand prize to $660 million, giving players a shot at the nation's ninth largest jackpot. The prize for Friday night's drawing h...
Jul 22, 2022 FILE - A Mega Millions play-slip for those players preferring to choose the numbers they want to play is among the stacks of other lottery game play-slips displayed in Cranberry Township, Pa., Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Lottery officials have raised the Mega Millions grand prize to $660 million Thursday, July 21, 2022, giving players a shot at the nation's ninth largest jackpot. The prize for Friday night's drawing has grown large because there hasn't been a winner in three months, from its $20 million starting point in April. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
KXEL Midday News for Thu. Jul. 21, 2022
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa's unemployment rate is now at a pre-pandemic level. It dropped to 2.6 percent in June. Iowa businesses added 5,100 jobs. Meanwhile, in the U.S. the number of people ap...
Jul 21, 2022 Michael Hunter / CC
KXEL Morning News for Thu. Jul. 21, 2022
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa City police have arrested two people in connection to a robbery and shots fired incident on Tuesday. Police said they arrested Joey Smith, Jr., 31, and Marcia Smith Buckh...
Jul 21, 2022
KXEL Midday News for Wed. Jul. 20, 2022
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A former lottery computer technician convicted in a scheme to rig computers to win jackpots for himself, friends and family has been paroled after serving more than five years ...
Jul 20, 2022
KXEL Morning News for Wed. Jul. 20, 2022
WATERLOO, Iowa (KCRG) - Tuesday morning at approximately 8:30 am, police responded to the 700 block of Kern Street for a welfare check call. Officers arrived to find 40-year-old Robert Smull holding a...
Jul 20, 2022
KXEL Midday News for Tue. Jul. 19, 2022
NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (KCRG) - The Iowa Board of Regents is being asked to approve a budget increase for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic's new healthcare facility that's being built in North...
Jul 19, 2022
KXEL Morning News for Tue. Jul. 19, 2022
BREMER COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - At approximately 8:29 am, the Iowa State Patrol responded to a report of an accident on Highway 218 Northbound near mile marker 195. Officials say that a 2014 Chevy Impala...
Jul 19, 2022
KXEL Midday News for Mon. Jul. 18, 2022
PALO, Iowa (KCRG) - Law enforcement officials are working to determine the cause and manner of death of a woman in Palo. On Friday, July 15, the Benton County Sheriff's Office conducted a welfare chec...
Jul 18, 2022
KXEL Morning News for Mon. Jul. 18, 2022
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Amid an increase in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Community Level of COVID-19 in Linn County, the City of Cedar Rapids will be requiring masks for visitor...
Jul 18, 2022
KXEL Midday News for Fri. Jul. 15, 2022
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) -Iowa's alcohol distribution laws will soon change, and that could have a major impact for bars, restaurants, golf courses and any establishment that carries a class C licens...
Jul 15, 2022 Darien Graham-Smith / CC