Both U.S. senators and all 14 House members from the state are backing the Down East Remembrance Act, introduced in both chambers this week. U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy, a Republican who represents Carteret County where the six people lived, spoke briefly about it on the floor of the House.
The families of four people who died in a February plane crash off the North Carolina coast are suing the companies that owned the plane and employed the pilot.