Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – The U.S. Air Force has completed a 7-month flight test for what is believed to be a futuristic space fighter plane after the unmanned spacecraft left its orbit and landed at a California airbase on Friday. The spacecraft dubbed X-37B or [...]

Jim Keller – AHN Sports Reporter Orlando, FL, United States (AHN) – Now Central Florida has its sights set on a bigger prize. Latavius Murray scored two touchdowns and the Central Florida defense kept Southern Methodist off the scoreboard for 50 minutes Saturday en route to a second Conference-USA championship in four years, 17-7, at [...]

A ban on the drilling off Florida’s coast in Gulf of Mexico or any where else along the East Coast, was announced earlier this week by the Obama Administration despite the fact that in March he agreed to expansion of offshore drilling. View full post on All Stories

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Tallahassee, FL, United States (AHN) – Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott announced members of his transition team on Thursday, nine weeks before he takes the oath as the state’s 45th chief executive. Scott appointed longtime aide Enu Mainigi as head of his transition committee. Manigi is a 1994 Harvard Law [...]

Tom Edrington – AHN Sports Reporter Tampa, FL, United States (AHN) – Rutgers played the first-ever college football game on November 6, 1869 and beat Princeton 6-4.. The University of South Florida’s football debut came on September 6, 1997 — an 80-3 victory over Kentucky Wesleyan. The oldest and one of the nation’s youngest Division [...]

Regulators have shut down a total of six banks in Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Kansas, lifting to 138 the number of U.S. banks that have fallen this year as soured loans have mounted and the economy has sputtered. View full post on All Stories

Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Orlando, FL, United States (AHN) – SeaWorld Orlando’s oldest killer whale named Katina gave birth on Saturday night, her seventh calf, according to officials of the theme park. Veterinarians said the gender of the baby orca, which is 7-foot long and 350 pounds, will be known later. The [...]

Food and franchising have gone together like peanut butter and jelly at least since 1935, when Howard Dearing Johnson franchised his first restaurant featuring ice cream, fried clams and hot dogs under an iconic orange roof. Though today only a handful of HoJo restaurants survive, food-related concepts are still some of the most popular and [...]

David Goodhue – AHN News Reporter Miami, FL, United States (AHN) – A Florida couple pleaded guilty to federal charges of planning to force 39 Filipino nationals to work at country clubs and hotels in the state. The U.S. Justice Department said in a statement that Sophia Manuel, 41, and Alfonso Baldonado Jr., 45, owners [...]

Jeehan Fernandez – AHN News Writer Bradenton, Florida, United States (AHN) – Horizon Bank based in Bradenton was shut down Friday by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation and received by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to protect depositors. The closure listed Horizon Bank as the 119th FDIC-insured institution to fail nationwide this year [...]

The Problem of Unrecognized Accounts Discovering the presence of accounts on your credit report that clearly do not belong to you can be unnerving. If you are the target of identity theft you will need to employ a very specific credit repair solution. But you must explore the nature of the issue before utilizing this [...]