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Train smashes through big rig full of cotton in NC
Video has emerged of a train in North Carolina ripping in half a tractor-trailer full of cotton. A woman can be heard screaming in terror as the train quickly approaches the big rig stuck on the tracks in Kings Mountain on Friday. The driver and passenger are seen running to…
10% more GM crops in the world in 2010: study
SAO PAULO – The amount of the world’s farmland given over to genetically modified (GM) crops grew 10% last year, with the United States remaining the biggest zone for the altered produce, according to a study released in Brazil Tuesday. A total of 148 million hectares (366 million acres) are…
City Councilman tells black member he should work in cotton field
The president of the Houston County Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) wants a councilman in Georgia to resign after he made allegedly racial remarks to a fellow council member. At a recent Warner Robins City Council meeting, John Williams told Daron Lee that…
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