Mexican guest workers are claiming that a landscaping company subjected them to constant surveillance, threats, forced labor, and human trafficking, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Nashville.

In the wake of a damning newspaper exposé that highlighted alleged abuses at Mexican agro-businesses that supply the U.S. market, Wal-Mart and the Mexican government announced on Thursday steps the ...

File photo of a Mexican farmworker carrying a basin full of sweet potatoes in North Carolina. North Carolina is the top sweet potato producer in the United States. North Carolina has a billion-dollar ...

Editor's note: This is the 19th of a series of stories that will be featured in the Pensacola News Journal each week leading up to the 200th anniversary of Escambia County. Look for these stories each ...