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Sandy Hurley initially wasn’t planning to attend the “Fayetteville Fans First Look” unveiling of the downtown baseball stadium because of the rainy weather.

But as noon approached Saturday when the event would begin, she felt compelled to be there. And there she was, the wife of 48 years of the late former Mayor Bill Hurley, in the front row of a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new $40.2 million Segra Stadium, which will be home to the Fayetteville Woodpeckers, a Class A-Advanced minor league affiliate of the Houston Astros.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly supports legislation that would permanently repeal or extend the suspension of the onerous medical device tax, including H.R. 2207, the Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2019. We applaud Representatives Ron Kind, Jackie Walorski, Scott Peters, and Richard Hudson for leading the effort on this bipartisan legislation, and urge you to cosponsor it. Members who cosponsor this legislation will receive credit for the Leadership component of their “How They Voted” rating.

With a planned public tour of the new Segra Stadium scheduled to occur only one day from now, the contractor on the project by late Thursday afternoon had not yet received a temporary certificate of occupancy that is required before the public can enter the downtown stadium.

But city officials say they are confident the certificate will be issued that will allow the “Fayetteville Fans First Look” event to go off as planned.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Scott Whitaker, president and CEO of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), issued the following statement on introduction of bipartisan legislation (H.R. 2207) in the U.S. House of Representatives to permanently repeal the medical device excise tax:

“America’s medical technology industry is facing a $20 billion tax increase at year-end, when the current medical device tax suspension expires. Urgent action is essential to protect future medtech innovations that benefit patients and to avoid putting good-paying U.S. jobs at risk.

LEBANON, Ohio (WKRC) - Thousands of truck drivers are breaking the law by carrying firearms across state lines, but is the problem the truck driver or the laws?

"It’s dangerous out there. You never can tell,” said Cliff Brown, a truck driver from Florida.

"You get these young guys who want to see if a truck driver’s got money on them,” said Patrick Kent, a truck driver from Louisiana. “They want it; they’re going to come in and try and get it."

Whether $86.2 million in military construction projects at Fort Bragg are subject to funding cuts or being diverted to support President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration and border wall remains to be determined.

Last month, the Pentagon released a list of more than $12.8 billion worth of military construction projects that officials are reviewing to determine which ones are eligible to potentially fund portion’s of a wall at the southern border.

Capt. Jacob Riffe was traveling on Interstate 95 last April when he noticed a vehicle swerve and crash into a fence.

Riffe, a soldier with the 264th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 3rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, said his training kicked in as he pulled his vehicle over and rushed to help the occupants.

For his efforts, Riffe was awarded the Soldier's Medal for heroism on March 22 by U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson during a ceremony at Fort Bragg.

The medal is the Army's highest award for heroism outside of combat.