With extensive deployed operations expected to continue for the foreseeable future, our troops will require, and deserve, continued support from those of us for whom they are fighting. Regardless of your position on any particular mission, these men and women are doing their duty to you and our country, going in harm's way and sometimes making the ultimate sacrifice. They deserve our unwavering support.

Montgomery, Ala. - Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has been retained by the families of two of the seven victims killed in a fiery van crash on U.S. 82 Oct. 3. The incident involved an Alabama Department of Corrections vehicle that was struck by an 18-wheeler early that Friday morning. The ADOC van was carrying employees and job applicants from a state prison near Union Springs to another prison when the crash occurred about 5:50 a.m.

Both Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barak Obama and Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain say they support drug reimportation - or the importing of prescription drugs from other countries - however both say that the safety of those drugs should be paramount.

Beasley Allen sponsored two Montgomery Youth Football teams this year, in the 8-10-year-old division and the 11-12-year-old division. Pictured, noseguard Wilson Miles gives a "high five" to his defensive line coach after making a sack on the running back for a 7-yard-loss for the opposing team.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), a watchdog group that researched data dating back to 2004 and yearly totals from the early 1990s, found more than 4,800 deaths and more than 21,000 adverse drug reactions were reported to the FDA during the first three months this year. The number of adverse reactions was 38 percent higher than the average for the previous four calendar quarters and the highest for any quarter, according to the report. There was a 3 percent increase in the number of deaths compared to the last calendar quarter of 2007.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Delta Enterprise Corp., of New York, New York., is announcing the voluntary recall to of nearly 1.6 million cribs.

Hello, everyone! My name is Mary Lindsey Hannahan. And I have Cystic Fibrosis, the common cause of which we are all here for.  I would like to thank each and every one of you for coming, and helping make CF stand for "Cure Found". Cystic Fibrosis

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a 2004 law imposing stricter rules on those suing for asbestos-related injuries can be applied to cases pending before the legislation was passed, a move that could frustrate thousands of people seeking claims.

ETHEX Corporation announced Oct. 16 that it is voluntarily recalling lots of Dextroamphetamine Sulfate 5 mg tables due to oversized pills that may contain as much as twice the labeled amount of its active ingredient, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The recalled lots were distributed under the ETHEX label between January 2007 and May 2008.

Beasley Allen has been selected for inclusion on The National Law Journal's 2008 Plaintiffs' Hot List. The list is the magazine's "unscientific survey" of the litigation scene since the summer of 2007, and features exemplary firms that devote at least half of their resources to plaintiffs' work, and which have achieved at least one significant win during that period. Only 15 firms in the United States were selected to appear on the 2008 list.