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Workers face off against rendering company in rural North Carolina Photo courtesy of Chris Hollis In tiny Bertie County, Valley Proteins is one of the only employers. Employees say the working conditions are terrible, and now they’re fighting back. Herman Purvis starts work each day a little before 8 in the morning, driving the first of what will likely total several hundred miles over the course of his 11-hour shift from his home in Windsor, a small town in northeastern North Carolina’s Bertie County, to the Valley Proteins plant in the nearby town of Lewiston Woodville. Pictured above:...

Heartwarming act of kindness: Child delivers flax bouquets to random Tamatea residents 21 Apr, 2021 04:06 AM 2 minutes to read Skyla Bedford-Rolleston has been spreading some random joy in her community. Photo / Supplied Hawkes Bay Today By: Louise Gould A Tamatea Intermediate School student has been spreading joy in her community with random acts of flax flower kindness. Michaela Smith was one of several lucky Tamatea residents to receive a bouquet of flax flowers, along with a handwritten, anonymous, note at her home. The note stated: "Just because, spread the active of kindness. Hey, a smi...

Chris Hollis is among the truck drivers involved in organizing a union at Valley Proteins' animal waste rendering operations in North Carolina. (Photo courtesy of Chris Hollis.) Herman Purvis starts work each day a little before 8 in the morning, driving the first of what will likely total several hundred miles over the course of his 11-hour shift from his home in Windsor, a small town in northeastern North Carolina's Bertie County, to the Valley Proteins plant in the nearby town of Lewiston Woodville. There, he hops into the cab of a company truck, hitches up a trailer, and sets off. Sometim...

All six are in custody of the Sangamon County Jail. Charged were Anthony Strange, 24; Mysean Burden, 18; Jahquel D. Pearsall, 18; Michael A. Smith, 27; Jerry E. Broomfield, 18  and Michael A. Benning, 19, all of Springfield. Smith, Broomfield and Benning all face armed violence charges. The Class X felony is punishable by 15 to 30 years behind bars. All three were arrested together by the Springfield Police Department's Street Crimes Unit when a vehicle they were in attempted to elude officers in the 1200 block of South Dirksen Parkway late Friday evening.  Officers found a loaded Gloc...

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