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A bail hearing for a former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager convicted of financial fraud turned testy Wednesday when a prosecutor accused the manager of lying in court.
In the musty conference room of a South Dakota hotel, Sholom Rubashkin helps a disheveled man in a hooded sweat shirt wrap black bands around his left arm and head. Attached to each is a black box containing inscriptions from the Torah.
A University of Iowa doctor who perfected a nonsurgical treatment for curing clubfoot in infants has died.
Paul Lasley cringed when he heard about an undercover video showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa hatchery.
A federal judge on Monday delayed the trial of four former top managers at an Iowa slaughterhouse where 389 people were arrested last year in what was the largest immigration raid in U.S. history at the time.
After one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history, Cedar Rapids plans to turn a flood-prone strip of land next to the Cedar River into a 220-acre greenway. But a few stubborn homeowners and businesses are refusing to leave.
In small towns, one more cop really does make a difference.
Iowa's labor agency has agreed to slash proposed fines by $9 million against the former owners of a kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid with the hope that it can recoup a fraction of the penalties.
Life in Postville wasn't easy before federal agents raided the area's largest employer and detained 389 people on immigration charges.
Hundreds of people have waited for hours in lines that stretched for blocks to attend the visitation for a slain Iowa high school football coach.
Jaylynn Banks and her family have moved four times since the Cedar River burst its banks last June and flooded a huge swath of Cedar Rapids, including their neighborhood.
Iowa is levying a record-setting, wage-related fine against a Texas labor contractor for alleged labor-law violations in its employment and care of dozens of mentally disabled men who worked at an Iowa meatpacker.
Hundreds gathered in the small northeast Iowa town of Postville on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of a huge immigration raid and reflect on the community's difficulty in recovering from the arrests.
An unidentified company has bought a $10 million credit line to an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse that went bankrupt after a massive immigration raid, paving the way for the plant's sale.
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has released some e-mails he sent in his first two years in office using private computers and non-government servers, a move that follows criticism that he was using private e-mail accounts to dodge public-records law.
Dozens of gay couples have flocked to Iowa from elsewhere in the Midwest since the door to same-sex marriage was opened there this week, and some counties have seen more interest from outside the state than within.
For immigrant advocates, the raid on a meatpacking plant in Postville last May was evidence of all that is wrong with large-scale arrests of illegal workers.
Gangs of men punching people on the street at random. Street fights where bystanders sometimes cheer, and where those who try to intervene sometimes get beaten themselves.
Minutes after Neel Manglik illegally turned right on a red light in the Des Moines suburb of Clive, a video popped up on a computer at an office park outside Scottsdale, Ariz.
Despite a state budget crisis and a crumbling national economy, Iowa legislators will nonetheless take on one of the most expensive problems in state history — flood recovery.
An Iowa judge has ordered the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse to remain in jail pending his trial on charges of harboring illegal immigrants, document fraud and identity theft.
Kosher slaughterhouse Agriprocessors has filed for bankruptcy court protection, blaming its financial difficulties on the May immigration raid on its Iowa plant in which more than 300 people were arrested.
A St. Louis-based bank is seeking to seize and auction all of Agriprocessors' assets, claiming the slaughterhouse defaulted on a $35 million loan.
A toddler found dead after being reported missing with his brother and mother was a victim of homicide, the Iowa medical examiner's office ruled Tuesday.
A toddler was found dead and his mother and 7-year-old brother injured Monday, a day after the father and husband had reported them missing while on a trip, authorities said.
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