Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, IA
1 day ago
Iowa State Daily, Iowa State University, IA
1 day ago by David B. Caruso/AP Writer
NEW YORK - Two decades ago, the Rubashkin family of Brooklyn opened up a kosher slaughterhouse amid the cornfields of Iowa - not exactly a center of Jewish culture.
The strangers from Brooklyn quickly transformed Postville into a melting pot. Immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico began arriving in great numbers to work at the slaughterhouse.
Iowa State Daily, Iowa State University, IA
1 day ago by Andrew Welsh-Huggins/AP Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he's too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
Lawyers for Richard Cooey argue in a federal lawsuit that Cooey - 5-feet-7 and 267 pounds - had poor veins when he faced execution five years ago and the problem has been worsened by weight gain.
Iowa State Daily, Iowa State University, IA
2 days ago by Henry C. Jackson/AP Writer
POSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) _ Scores of Somali immigrants are taking jobs at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, replacing Hispanic workers arrested in a huge immigration raid and forcing a remote Iowa town to make another cultural shift.
Before the May 12 raid at Agriprocessors, hundreds of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants maintained a vibrant community in Postville, a largely white community of 2,200 people in northeast Iowa.
Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, IA
3 days ago
Collegio, Pittsburg State University, KS
6 days ago by Aida Zamilova
"It's a hot topic every year," said Butch Herring, director of police and parking services, about PSU's perennial parking problems.
The numbers tell the story: With current enrollment of about 7,200 students, the university has 4,027 total parking spaces, according to Herring.
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