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Trustee: Iowa slaughterhouse sale `in the works'

May. 22, 2009
The trustee for a bankrupt kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa says a sale of the company is "in the works." Joe Sarachek, the bankruptcy trustee for Agriprocessors Inc., said Friday that he would soon have an announcement regarding the sale. Immigration agents...
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler