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Company bids $8.5 million for Iowa slaughterhouse

Jul. 6, 2009
A newly formed Iowa company has bid $8.5 million for a struggling kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid last year. SHF Industries made the bid for the Agriprocessors plant Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Cedar Rapids. The...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch