Melanie Pearson has been named director of the 5 North post-surgical/orthopedic unit at Iredell Memorial Hospital in Statesville. She most recently served as the unit’s assistant director.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is overseeing one of the largest safety recalls of recent years after the Japanese automaker Nissan announced two major campaigns affecting hundreds of thousands of its Rogue SUVs in the United States.

North Carolina was among 26 states targeted in a nationwide U.S. Department of Transportation effort in January that removed nearly 2,000 unqualified commercial drivers and unsafe vehicles from the roads.