Butner News

The former North Carolina mental hospital director who resigned after using state money to buy a portrait of herself is on the special team studying patient safety at Cherry Hospital.

PERSON COUNTY, N.C. An attempt to oppose a proposed bio- and agro- defense lab in Butner failed at a County Commission meeting in Person County Monday morning.

If the Person Board of County Commissioners is going to take a position on whether the federal government should build a proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility near Butner in neighboring Granville ...

State and local political winds were tending to shift to the negative around the Department of Homeland Security's consideration of Granville County as the location for a new biohazard lab, as reported today by ...

Thursday, August 14, 2008 New Broughton director would be best served by systemwide help - Asheville Citizen-Times Opinion: August 13 The new director at Broughton State Psychiatric Hospital will take over a ...

Seann Matson had a bad feeling about one of his fellow sailors on the guided missile cruiser Cape St.

A federal agency rated a North Carolina site last year as an excellent place for a proposed biohazard lab because of local support, but that was before local governments and a congressman voiced strong ...

A federal agency's report last year rated a North Carolina site as an excellent place for a proposed biohazard lab because of strong support, but that was before local governments and a congressman voiced their ...

Even as shifting political winds have more and more politicians voicing opposition to a proposed bio-defense lab in Butner, The Associated Press is reporting new information that should heighten, not end, the ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. That giant sucking sound you may have heard Wednesday was the air leaving the balloon of efforts to land the $450 million National Bio- and Agro-Defense Lab for North Carolina.

Monday Raleigh's City Council voted to oppose the proposed lab to be operated by the Department of Homeland Security.

The congressman whose district includes a location proposed for a biodefense lab in Butner said Tuesday he wouldn't support the lab, although he said such research should continue to protect public health.

The N.C. Biotechnology Center has refused to accept a grant to fund an education campaign about a bio-defense lab proposed for Granville County.

U.S. Rep. Brad Miller, whose congressional district includes Wake and Granville counties, announced today that he is withdrawing his support for locating the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Butner.

BUTNER, N.C. Federal officials in town Tuesday were met with community activists bearing sheep and other props.

Representatives from the Department of Homeland Security will be in Butner today to answer questions about a proposed bio-defense lab.

Those opposed to the construction of a biolab in Butner vocalized their concerns in two public hearings Tuesday.

Former economist Al Parish has been moved to a federal holding facility in Atlanta, ending his brief stint in a rural Georgia County detention center.

Patients have begun moving from John Umstead Hospital in Butner to the state's new psychiatric facility about a mile away.

The first patients were moved into a new state mental hospital in Butner on Monday, ending nearly a year of worries and delays about when the $130 million facility would open.