So much confusion has arisen from Toyota's announcement to recall 3.8 million vehicles because of their potential to accelerate suddenly and unexpectedly. While Toyota zeroed in on driver's side floor mats as the cause of the problem, saying that they could slide forward and jam the accelerator pedal in full open position, several media venues speculated about the solution. Would the fix amount to a simple floor mat repair? Or would it involve redesigning the gas pedal and / or the electronic-based braking and accelerator controls?

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Maclaren USA, Inc., of South Norwalk, Conn., today announced a voluntary recall of Maclaren Strollers. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. The stroller's hinge mechanism poses a fingertip amputation and laceration hazard to the child when the consumer is unfolding/opening the stroller.

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.