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ANALYSIS: Thirteen months after his sinking Republican primary campaign launched its “No Surrender” tour in Sioux City, U.S. Sen. John McCain spent part of Sunday in north-central Iowa, kicking off the last full week of the 2008 general election on a similar note.

The state’s criminal investigation unit announced Thursday afternoon that it has begun an investigation involving Tom Jennings, Waterloo chief of police.

A total of 140 of the 389 individuals detained by the government during the May 12 immigration raids of Agriprocessors in Postville have now been sentenced in federal court. To date, all individuals associated with this case who are facing criminal charges have opted to plea guilty.

Brown eyes dart first up the downtown Waterloo street and then down toward the river before turning skyward to glisten in the midday sun. When they close against the glare, the 19-year-old woman sways slightly and wraps her arms around her thin waist.
“I don’t know if I should be doing this — talking to you,” [...]

U.S. Congressman Bruce Braley is pushing federal agencies to investigate Agriprocessors in Postville for possible violations of immigration law.

The setting is different, but the process remains basically the same.

Initial court appearances for the individuals who stand criminally charged following the immigration raids on Agriprocessors in Postville began Tuesday night in Waterloo and continued today.

Criminal hearings are currently under way in makeshift courtrooms in Waterloo for 20 of the nearly 400 individuals detained following a Monday immigration raid of meatpacking plant Agriprocessors, Inc., in Postville.
In a press conference this afternoon in Cedar Rapids, Matt Dummermuth, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, and Claude Arnold, special agent with [...]

A Department of Agriculture program that provided low-interest loans for rural coal power has been suspended. Iowa’s largest coal-burning plant, Council Bluffs No. 4, received $177 million from the USDA in 2004.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has denied Missouri-based LS Power and subsidiary Elk Run Energy their construction permit for a coal plant in Waterloo Thursday because of “failure to meet an administrative requirement.”

Air Quality Bureau Chief Catharine Fitzsimmons told the Iowa Independent that her office “turned the application back to the applicant because they [...]

This morning, before a crowd of roughly 100 Iowans at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, one of Iowa’s youngest congressmen was the first from Iowa to offer an endorsement of a presidential candidate. Congressman Bruce Braley publicly announced his support for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.

Following the event, Braley, an Edwards activist in 2004, [...]