Last month, Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a safety advisory alerting the owners of 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles to remove the driver's side floor mats in their cars. The mats, Toyota said, could slide forward and interfere with the gas pedal, whose design allowed it to be easily jammed, causing a dangerous Unintended Acceleration situation. The recall is the largest ever for Toyota and the fifth largest recall of a consumer product in the United States.

If the world didn't know who Grant Enfinger was when he first showed up on tour in 2008, you better believe it knows who he is now.

In seven starts in 2009, in his own no. 83 BeasleyAllen.com sponsored Ford Fusion, Enfinger checked off four top-five finishes among a couple of near wins at Kentucky and Chicagoland, where he finished second. Third place finishes at Talladega and Kansas, and a seventh at Rockingham served notice that this guy's the real deal.

Several companies have recently recalled certain cat foods deficient in thiamine, dog foods containing mold, and dog foods that could contain plastic. For each recall the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting that veterinarians file a report.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Target stores, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.

Halloween can become a scary time for all the wrong reasons. Unsafe costumes, walking in the streets, getting candy from strangers... The risks are real, but there are a number of things you can do to keep your trick-or-treaters safe.

Dr. Diane Harper, the lead researcher in human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine development and director of the University of Minnesota's Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group, was expected to promote the vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination in Reston, Virginia, earlier this month. Instead of promoting the vaccines, however, Dr. Harper pulled the covers off of what appears to be a highly bogus and ethically questionable scheme concocted by Merck to have young girls mandatorily vaccinated in public schools.

At its regularly scheduled meeting Monday, Oct. 26, the Montgomery County Commission presented a Resolution officially declaring Pro Bono Week in Montgomery County, October 25-31, 2009. The resolution was presented by Commissioner E. Hamilton Wilson, Jr., to State Bar President Thomas J. Methvin of Montgomery (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.); Patrick L.W. "Pat" Sefton, President of the Montgomery County Bar Association (Sasser, Sefton, Tipton and Davis, P.C.); and Royal Dumas, Chairman of the MCBA Pro Bono Committee (Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, P.C.).

Once again beasleyallen.com driver Grant Enfinger gave it his all during the Carolina 200 at Rockingham North Carolina Sunday.

As she rode her 4-year-old gelding Quarter Horse, Vern, in the finals at the recent Music City Futurity cutting horse show in Franklin, Tennessee, Julia Beasley tried to relax. The horse trembled with intense concentration, anticipating the cow's next move to keep the cow in front of him. When it was over, the pair earned the Reserve Champion title. Sam Shepard, Julia's trainer, made the Open finals on Vern at the Music City Futurity. Vern was the Non-Pro Champion recently at Magnolia Classic in Canton, Mississippi, with Julia and was Open Reserve Champion with Sam Shepard riding him.

Montgomery based law firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., one of the country's leading firms involved in civil litigation on behalf of claimants, has named lawyer Chris Glover as its newest shareholder. Glover, who practices in the firm's Personal Injury Section, has dedicated his career to representing injured individuals and their families in a wide range of serious injury and death claims, including those that were a result of defective products, car, commercial truck and workplace accidents.