Alarming numbers are in from the most recent, statewide law enforcement campaign against drunk and impaired driving. During the Labor Day “Booze It & Lose It” campaign this year, law…
On August 26, 2010, the DePuy Orthopaedics company, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, issued a voluntary recall of two hip replacement systems. About 93,000 of the devices have been implanted…
Have you had a Johnson & Johnson/DePuy hip replacement implant in the past few years? These devices have a 1 in 8 chance of failing, which would require you to have additional surgery, called…
On September 28, 2010, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Washington, D.C. announced its determination that a fatal multicar crash that occurred on June 26, 2009 in Miami, Oklahoma…
Dennis Covington, Jr. was hit as a pedestrian while checking a tire on Alamance Church Road in Greensboro on September 26, 2010. The motorist involved did not stop to check if Covington, Jr. was all…
Six or seven Seagrove Elementary School students were taken to area hospitals when a car hit a rear wheel of their school bus on Southrock Road on October 1, 2010. One student was air lifted to UNC…
A young man, Suquan Rogers, died at High Point Regional Hospital after an automobile accident on North Scientific Street in High Point, North Carolina during the early morning hours of October 2,…
The Johnson & Johnson/DePuy hip replacement recall is a mind-boggling fiasco, with the devices having been implanted in 93,000 patients. Many will likely need painful and expensive…
Nicholas Acenas, 19, was crossing Deacon Boulevard in Winston-Salem to attend a job fair hosted by the Dixie Classic Fair at Laurence Joel Veterans Coliseum when he was hit by a car. Fortunately, a…
Scott Robert Striano, 42, was with friends on a fishing trip to Kitty Hawk, a town on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, when he was hit by two vehicles and killed during the night on September 25,…
Michael R. Pellegrino, 48, of Stokesdale, North Carolina was discovered dead on NC Highway 421 on the morning of September 26, 2010. Troopers are unsure of exactly how and when he was killed, but he…
Have you or someone you know had hip replacement surgery using a hip implant device made by the DePuy Orthopaedics company? You may be receiving a letter from your doctor asking you to come in for…