Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor New York, NY, United States (AHN) – A recent study on Americans and their spending found that many are holding back on nonessential spending, such as vacations or dining out, since the beginning of 2011 as a result of the rise in gasoline prices. “The sensitivity to gasoline [...]

AHN Sports Staff New York, NY, United States (AHN Sports) – Kevin Garnett scored 26 points and hauled 10 boards to lead the Boston Celtics to a series-clinching 101-89 victory against the New York Knicks Sunday in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference first-round series at Madison Square Garden. Coming off a four-point effort in [...]

Saving money whenever you can is important. That’s why there are so many stores that focus on keeping their prices lower by offering you the off brand alternatives to so many things. However, your savings don’t have to be limited to the retail setting: when you can get cheap auto insurance in NY, everything about [...]

IRIN Staff DAKAR, Senegal (IRIN) – Hiring taxis instead of 4WDs, signing memos of understanding with local elites, and co-investing programmers with governments and locals, are some of the ways aid agencies have lowered risks to staff in highly insecure aid environments such as Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan. These and other examples are detailed in [...]

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will start an investigation of the country’s discount tour bus industry folliowing the deadly New York crash last month, Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Nydia Velazquez announced Sunday. The March 12 accident, which took the lives of [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Toyota has postponed the launch of a wagon-type Prius in Japan, where vehicle production remains halted following an earthquake. The new model of the automaker’s popular hybrid was scheduled to hit dealers in the disaster-stricken nation in April. The company on Tuesday [...]

Auto insurance rules are specific to different states and their needs. New York is one of the peculiar cases. Before knowing more about New York car insurance rules, let’s see why it is so different? The history of Dairy Queen is an impressive and inspiring one. Beginning with the imagination of a father and son [...]

Welcome to 2010. Look around the states. Yes, they all have different perils for drivers to face. For some, it’s the weather with snow and ice making driving dangerous during winter. In others, it’s hurricanes and tornados. But leaving aside all the different types of peril, there’s one big problem for everyone with a vehicle [...]

Let’s start off with a simple explanation of why fraud costs us all money. Insurance companies employ math-geeks called actuaries. They spend their time estimating how many traffic accidents there are likely to be and how much all the claims will be worth in a year. That total is divided among all the policy holders [...]

There are a ton of vehicle policy companies which must give the customers a costless estimate on the web or over the telephone. As this is all well and good, most of these corporations do not offer a community office in which that shopper will visit. Sometimes, it is beneficial to have a community agent [...]