The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirm one person from North Carolina is among the passengers evacuated from the cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. That passenger, along with 15 other Americans, was transferred to the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s National Quarantine Unit for monitoring.

Legislation to prohibit foreign companies from buying land near military bases in North Carolina took another step forward Tuesday in the House Homeland Security committee. Senate Bill 394 would block companies in China, Iran, Russia, North Korea and other countries deemed by the federal government to be “adversarial” from purchasing, acquiring, leasing, or holding any […]