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The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of 165,000 children’s riding toys due to fall hazards. The agency reported that Radio Flyer’s Scoot ‘n Zoom toy can tip over, causing the rider to fall and potentially suffer an injury. There have been six injuries reported, including chin lacerations that required stitches and some Read More

Perfect Fitness has agreed to pay $425,000 in penalties to the Consumer Product Safety Commission over allegations that the company failed to report a product defect. The agency claims Perfect Fitness was aware of a defect in its Perfect Pullup product in June 2008, but did not report the defect until December 2010, a violation Read More

As of July 20, 2011, Arkansas revenue offices have equipment allowing Arkansas motorists to see the oath they sign when obtaining driver’s licenses. The oath has been updated at the urging of law enforcement officials and now includes a pledge that motorists will not text while driving. Law enforcement official asked that the change to Read More

There was an article in Saturday’s business section of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette regarding Miscanthus Giganteus, a biofuel grass to be planted in Paragould, Arkansas. The Arkansas State Plant Board has expressed some concerns that the grass to be grown for biofuel has many of the same characteristics of kudzu. Proponents for the biofuel grass say Read More

If you’ve watched any political television lately then you’ve likely seen Republicans, particularly those with a Tea Party lean, cry out with exuberance for “smaller government” and “deregulation of industry.” Last week’s massive Cargill recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey from a plant in Springdale, Arkansas, one of the largest meat recalls in Read More

DuPont has announced that it will recall its widely used Imprelis herbicide after receiving complaints that the product has killed thousands of trees. The company has advised customers to stop using the herbicide around Norway spruce and white pines. The Environment Protection Agency has asked the company to release thousands of confidential documents on Imprelis’s Read More

CVS Pharmacy, Inc. has agreed to pay $45,000 in civil penalties to the Consumer Product Safety Commission for failing to report that the company had sold children’s hooded jackets with drawstrings at the neck. Companies are required by law to notify the CPSC “after obtaining information…that a product contains a defect which could create a Read More

Chrysler has issued a recall of 300,000 minivans to fix problems with the air conditioner that could cause the airbags to suddenly deploy. The recall affects certain 2008 Grand Voyager, Town and Country and Dodge Grand Caravan vehicles. The company said “condensation from the heating and air conditioner could leak onto a sensor module,” causing Read More

Black & Decker Inc. has agreed to pay $960,000 in fines to the Consumer Product Safety Commission amidst allegations the company “didn’t alert [the agency] about a defective weed trimmer.” Allegedly, the company knew its Grasshog XP electric weed trimmer was defective as early as May 2006, but did not issue a recall until more Read More

Honda Motor Co. has issued a recall of about 1.5 million vehicles in the United States and more than 130,000 in Canada to fix a problem with the transmission software. Company officials said that if the transmission was quickly shifted between gears, the transmission could become damaged. The recall covers four-cylinder Accords, the CR-V crossover Read More