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.
University Chronicle, Saint Cloud State University, MN
2 days ago by Joseph Froemming
Friday night Sick Machine brought their hardcore brand of rock and roll to the Rox bar.
The band recently released a studio album, "Ready To Burn" which they are promoting with their recent string of live shows.
"Ready To Burn" was a do-it-yourself effort from Sick Machine.
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.
University Chronicle, Saint Cloud State University, MN
2 days ago by Joseph Froemming
A strange world of secretive politicians putting on amateur shows for the press, crazed Christians speaking in tongues in Texas and 9/11 conspiracy freaks barraging a reporter in a New York café are all in a day's work for Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi.
University Chronicle, Saint Cloud State University, MN
3 days ago by Dana Johnson
Day Two: there's more to 10KLF than what meets the eye
The more time spent at 10KLF, the more one will see of the festival attendees.
Ages young and old could be spotted throughout the crowd, with many parents carrying children in wagons to see their favorite bands.
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