Johnson & Johnson took quarterly charges of more than $3 billion, largely related to the recall of artificial hips, and gave a 2012 earnings forecast below analysts’ estimates on Tuesday. The company’s DePuy Orthopaedics unit issued an extensive recall of its “metal-on-metal” hip replacement devices in 2010 after they shed metal fragments, causing disabling injuries. The fourth-quarter charges will allow money to be set aside...

Charges have been filed against people in two of three vehicles involved in a wreck Saturday that killed two teens from Grayson. According to a press release from Gwinnett County Police, the accident is still under investigation, but so far charges have been filed against the drivers of two of the vehicles involved, although not related to the accident. The driver of the car that was hit head-on by the vehicle the Grayson teens were...

LULA – No one was injured in a traffic accident that shut down Clarks Bridge Road in Hall County for nearly six hours Thursday morning. “A car hit a power pole and took the power pole down,” Jackson EMC Senior P.R. Communication Representative K.D. Graham said. Word of the accident came into the WDUN Traffic Center around 6:26 a.m. and continued to be a item of interest all morning. According to the Georgia State Patrol,...

ROCK HILL – A driver crashed through a brick wall outside a Rock Hill hair salon and into a fire hydrant Wednesday in Rock Hill, police say. Police responded to a one-vehicle wreck around 8:30 a.m. and found an abandoned Honda Civic sitting on top of a hydrant at Diva Designs Hair Studio, 503 W. Main Street, according to a Rock Hill police report. It appears the driver was making a left turn off Constitution Boulevard onto West Main...

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