Checking Account Information
Ex-Inver Grove Heights principal sentenced for embezzlement (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) Sidney Brock was charged in 2006 with embezzling $6,850 to cover overdrafts in a personal checking account.
Cash Strapped? Get Your Bank to Pay You (ABC News) How to avoid outrageous ATM and checking fees and advice on smart investing.
7 Things to Consider When Choosing an Online Bank (Carteret County News-Times) (ARA) - Tired of tiny savings account interest rates? Feel like your bank isn't paying enough for the privilege of using your deposits? If so, it's time to move your money to a place where it will work better for you.
How to Protect Your Money from Hidden Bank Fees (NPR) As banks charge more and higher fees for transactions ? from overdrafts to ATM use ? consumers may be taking a hit to their checking accounts without realizing it. Here are some tips for keeping your money in your own pocket.
Get bank, credit-card fees refunded (Belleville News-Democrat) It happens all the time. You open your bank statement or credit card bill, and there's a new fee assessed to your account that you hadn't counted on. Banks and credit card companies make billions a year from such fees.
Bank of Hawaii launches account-opening service, free checking (BizJournals) Bank of Hawaii customers can now open a checking or savings account online. (BOH)
Testimony centers on DTF account, McKinney check (The Star Press) MUNCIE -- A checking account Muncie-Delaware County Drug Task Force officers used to buy vehicles and equipment, including the leasing of two new SUVs in 2005, did not comply with state law, according to testimony during the ongoing drug forfeiture hearings on Wednesday.
Business Briefs (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Bank of Hawaii is launching free checking for all its customers on Thursday. The free checking account will have no minimum balance requirement and no monthly service charge.
Opposing view: Fees are a deterrent (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News) Keeping track of your checking account is easier than ever before: Consumers can access their accounts 24 hours a day, seven days a week ? either in a bank branch, at an ATM, by telephone or Internet and, in some cases, even by cellphone.
Bank To Return $300K Siphoned From Account (NBC 5 Chicago) Over the course of four years, a bank teller befriended a customer and slowly siphoned money from the account.
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