Illinois authorities are investigating the death of a baby girl for a possible link to tainted infant formula. Batches of powdered Enfamil Newborn formula were pulled from store shelves of at least five national retailers, including Wal-Mart, after the death of a 10-day-old boy who developed a rare infection caused by a bacteria sometimes found in dried milk and powdered formula. Another baby was also sickened by the bacteria, but survived.

According to NTSB records, mechanical failure is the ultimate cause of 13 percent of all aviation disasters. Key aircraft components or even entire engines may fail on their own or through no fault of the pilot.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A jury determined that Ford Motor Co. must pay $73 million in damages to a group of plaintiffs who sought damages from the auto giant after a 2004 crash left two people dead and two seriously injured. The verdict is one of the biggest wrongful death and personal injury verdicts in Sacramento history. The case involved the crash of a 15-passenger Econoline van that had been equipped with defective Goodyear tires, which the plaintiffs alleged should have been recalled by Ford.

For many people, Halloween costumes are serious business. Costumes go beyond clothes, with metallic face paints, colored hairsprays and twilight contacts for the eyes. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that many of those decorative, multi-colored, fashion lenses seen in stores and on websites are being sold illegally, without a prescription. Using them just might put your vision at risk.

Ford Motor Company defrauded the court, lied to federal regulators, and covered up decades of evidence linking sudden unintended acceleration incidents to electromagnetic interference a Florida judge said. Senior Judge William T. Swigert of the Fifth Judicial Circuit in Sumter County, Florida threw out a jury verdict favoring Ford in a sudden-acceleration lawsuit and ordered a new trial in which the jury would only determine compensatory and punitive damages for Peggy Stimpson, who was permanently paralyzed in a Ford Aerostar crash, and her family.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) this week announced a far-reaching investigation into the Ford F-150 pickup truck. Government inspectors are concerned that the steel straps that hold the vehicle’s fuel tank can rust and detach, causing the fuel tank to fall off. This may result in a fire hazard, as fuel tanks may dangle and drag along the roadway or completely detach and spill fuel upon impact with the pavement.

The deadline is fast approaching for residential and commercial property owners to report and receive replacements for defective fire sprinklers, recalled in June 2007. The initial recall, which includes a voluntary replacement program, included about 300,000 model J series dry fire sprinklers manufactured by Globe Fire Sprinkler. The recall was announced due to a concern that the sprinklers can deteriorate over time and fail to operate in a fire situation. The deadline for home and commercial property owners to submit a claim and receive replacement sprinkler heads is June 1, 2011.

In February, Ford announced a limited recall of just under 150,000 of its best-selling F150 pickup trucks, citing problems with the front airbags which could cause them to unexpectedly deploy. However, today the auto manufacturer has significantly expanded this recall to include almost 1.2 million vehicles.

Last March, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to interpret the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, named for a 7-year-old who died in a pool-drain incident in 2002, to no longer require back-up anti-entrapment systems in the drains of as many as 150,000 public and hotel pools and hot tubs. Now the CPSC has announced that the primary anti-entrapment systems on these same pools may have been improperly tested and unsafe.

This morning Toyota is announcing a recall of more than 2 million vehicles in the United States, saying they may pose a danger of the accelerator becoming entrapped in the floor mat. If this story sounds familiar, it should. The latest recall is an expansion of the company's earlier recall for this same problem, which it announced in 2009. This latest recall increases the total number of vehicles recalled by Toyota since 2009 to more than 14 million worldwide.