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ELKADER, Iowa -- The Clayton County Enterprise Commission Board recommended that the Iowa Department of Economic Development approve enterprise zone benefits for Agri Star Meat & Poultry LLC.

ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY PETER DEEGAN JR. GAVE THE GOVERNMENT'S CLOSING ARGUMENTS MONDAY IN SHOLOM RUBASHKIN'S FEDERAL FINANCIAL FRAUD TRIAL IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN SIOUX FALLS, S.D. RUBASHKIN IS ON TRIAL ON 91 FINANCIAL FRAUD CHARGES, AND DEEGAN ASKED JURORS TO CONVICT THE FORMER AGRIPROCESSORS INC.

Leigh Rekow's election as mayor Tuesday may signal a return to a more welcoming attitude toward Postville's immigrants.

As Postville moves past the blow of seeing its largest employer closed, city leaders will have months of planning with a University of Iowa institute to help guide it.

A former Iowa man accused of killing his infant son four years ago will go on trial in 2010.

The former manager of a kosher Iowa slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid says he never intentionally violated federal laws.

Leading police executives from states as diverse as California, Iowa and Texas joined a growing chorus of law enforcement officials calling for comprehensive immigration reform.

Top executives at an eastern Iowa slaughterhouse knew they were about to be raided by immigration agents and offered to cooperate with the government several days before the record-setting bust, a plant manager said Monday during the Sioux Falls trial of former plant executive Sholom Rubashkin.

Posted on Nov 02, 2009 by admin . Sholom Rubashkin An employee of an Iowa kosher meatpacking plant says that Sholom Rubashkin was incompetent and in over his head.

Posted on Oct 28, 2009 by Admin . FILE- This Aug. 13, 2008 file photo shows the kosher meat packing plant formerly owned by Agriprocessors Inc.

Title: Lutheran Bishops Advocate for Rights of Immigrants and Refugees ELCA NEWS SERVICE >October 30, 2009 Lutheran Bishops Advocate for Rights of Immigrants and Refugees 09-243-JD WASHINGTON -- Protecting children and keeping immigrant families together were repeated concerns raised by a committee of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America bishops ...

In the months since Agriprocessors - formerly America's largest kosher meatpacking plant - declared bankruptcy in the wake of allegations of unethical and illegal business practices, speculation has abounded: Who will fill the gap in the kosher meat market? Will meat prices go up? Will an Orthodox Jew buy the Postville, Iowa plant? Close to a year ...

A former kosher slaughterhouse manager accused of defrauding a bank had the final say on financial reports, a former chief financial officer testified Monday.

The eastern Iowa meat plant founded on an immigrant's dream was spiraling toward disaster years before federal agents arrested one-third of the company's workers, according to witnesses in the fraud trial of its former top executive.

Police arrested two northeast Iowa women on human trafficking charges Thursday, alleging they transported a 13-year-old Dubuque female to Chicago for prostitution.

'Postville: Games, Apparitions and Mementos,' a two-person exhibit focusing on the people affected by the immigration raid on Postville, Iowa, will be on display Oct.

POSTVILLE, Iowa - A Postville business has joined with others in donating to victims of a downtown fire over the weekend.

Two meat sellers testified in the trial of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager that they didn't know the plant used their names on allegedly bogus documents intended to defraud a lending bank.

Posted on Oct 19, 2009 by orlanlove . Postville, a town accustomed to aiding troubled residents, is again mobilizing to help the 19 people displaced by Saturday morning's fire in the downtown business district.

October 17, 2009 One more blow to an already struggling community. The town of Postville was just getting back on its feet, and now, a fire destroys a downtown business.