While the Justice Department has accused George's Inc. of harming chicken farmers by taking over a Tyson Foods plant in Harrisonburg, the chicken processor says it is the lawsuit that is detrimental to poultry growers.

The two chicken companies closed on the $3.1 million deal on May 7.

"The Transaction violates ... the Clayton Act because its effect may be substantially to lessen competition for the services of broiler growers operating in and around the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia and West Virginia," according to the complaint filed May 10 by the Justice Department's antitrust division.

Before the sale, area chicken farmers had a choice of three processing facilities -- George's in Edinburg, Tyson, and Pilgrim's Pride, which has plants in Timberville and Moorefield, W.Va.

A news release filed the same day by the department says the deal closed "despite the parties' awareness of the department's serious antitrust concerns about the transaction, and without providing a response to the information requested by the department."

An email dated May 13 from George's attorneys, John Harkrider and Michael Keeley, to the antitrust division's Jill Ptacek and Bill Stallings says the company takes issue with the complaint and news release. George's and Tyson's let the division know closing was "imminent," it says.

The email says the antitrust division issued a burdensome civil investigative demand on George's and Tyson's, even though both parties had willingly provided "considerable information" to the division.

The Tyson plant had been losing about $140,000 each week and more than $10 million in recent years, the email says.

"These losses negatively impacted growers who were facing increased out time between flocks and employees who were not able to work full shifts," it says. "The only way to stem these losses, and to protect the jobs of the 500 people who worked in the plant and the livelihood of dozens of growers, was for an integrator who was able to rely upon synergies from a nearby plant to acquire the facility."

On Monday, George's filed a motion saying it wanted the case to move through court expeditiously. Numerous affidavits were also filed.

If you believe what a small group of non-denominational Christians are preaching, the end of the world is coming this Saturday.

Mark the calender: May 21, 2011 at 6 p.m. (Eastern time).

For those who believe the prediction, which was calculated by Harold Camping with Family Radio Worldwide, it's a day that will be marked with an earthquake. Camping apparently decoded verses in the Bible and did a little math to come up with the May 21st date. (Note: He miscalculated Judgment Day before.)

"Most likely, we're figuring it's gonna be a big, giant rolling earthquake that's going to start on the timeline.  Fuji Islands first, New Zealand, Australia, Japan," said John Junstrom, a Tampa businessman who is also a believer in the prediction. "All the graves are going to open up, dead and Christ will rise first and by God's grace, and mercy those that truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ will go up to meet Christ in the air."

For others, May 21st will be marked with, well, whatever they had planned for Saturday.

Some people are even finding humor in the event by throwing rapture parties this weekend.

"Biblically, it says nobody knows, nobody.  Even Jesus said I don't even know," said Dan Austin of Tampa, who doubts anything will happen on Saturday.  "The fact they're saying it's going to be the 21st at 6 p.m. tells me this is not the day."

But, believers like Junstrom are convinced rapture will come and they are working to spread the word to as many people as possible.

If you attended Gasparilla this year, you may have spotted a caravan of RV's plastered with Judgment Day warnings.  The group is with Family Radio Worldwide, which is spear heading the nationwide tour.

"Today is still a day of salvation," said Junstrom, who tells 10 News is he is taking a three week vacation to spread the word.  He was in downtown Tampa on Tuesday handing out pamphlets to anyone who would take it.

Only about 1 in 15 people actually agrees to take one, he says.

USF Professor of Religious Studies James Strange says this latest prediction makes up a long list of failed predictions.

"I don't think it has any merit at all.  It's no better than an educated guess," pointed out the professor.

With the Army Corps of Engineers opening two additional gates at the Mississippi River's Morganza Spillway on Monday, Louisiana residents are bracing for a wall of water to barrel down on them, which is likely to swallow up their homes, their business, and their memories.

Water is now flowing into the spillway at a rate greater than that of Niagara Falls, more than 100,000 cubic feet per second.

At that rate, it would take just over an hour and a half to cover the entire island of Manhattan in a foot of water.

So far only 11 of the 125 gates have been opened and the Corps plans to open more as the river rises.

The action is intended to be the surest way to spare cities like New Orleans from another tragic flood.

But cities like Butte La Rose, La., which sits on floodplain to the south, are being sacrificed in order to prevent larger areas from massive flooding.

The Corps began flooding the spillway on Saturday, opening the floodgates for the first time in 40 years.

The goal is to divert the record high waters of the Mississippi away from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, choosing to risk smaller communities in an attempt to avert disaster in the most populous cities.

"It's really heart wrenching, that we here are going to be sacrificed for others. And it's a numbers game I guess," said Guy Comier, Parish President at St. Martins Church in Butte La Rose.