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U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- A bank teller pregnant with twins was shot in the abdomen during a robbery Tuesday morning, but both the teller and the fetuses survived the attack, authorities said. The masked gunman came into the Huntington Bank branch around 9:30 a.m., jumped over.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 15, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- The onslaught of homes facing foreclosures has yet to ebb, a research report showed Tuesday, with bank repossessions skyrocketing last month as more troubled homeowners mailed in their keys and walked away. And the worst isn’t over: the wave of adjus.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 5:00pm neoform

FOX News -- Three masked bank robbers shot a security guard, starting a shootout in a bank Tuesday morning that wounded a teller and a customer before the suspects fled, authorities said. The suspects were only in the bank for four or five minutes and got away wit.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 2:04pm neoform

FOX News -- A young woman dubbed the "Barbie Bandit" after she and a friend were caught on surveillance tape apparently robbing a Georgia bank laughed about it in an interview aired Friday, but admitted "some of the stuff we did was pretty ignorant." Heather Johns.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 9:22pm neoform

BBC News -- The embattled World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz, has indicated he does not plan to resign over a pay scandal. Mr Wolfowitz told a news conference: "This is important work and I intend to continue it." He has been under pressure to quit after admi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 3:20am neoform

USA Today -- Bank tellers testified Saturday that a preacher's wife accused of murdering her husband with a shotgun was in financial trouble and that their bank had caught her trying to deposit bad checks. Prosecutors have said the couple's account at Regions Bank.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Apr 7, 2007 @ 4:18am neoform

MSNBC -- When a third suspect was caught Friday in a bank robbery investigation that led to the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, he had a request for officers: "Just shoot me." Francisco Herrera-Genao, 22, was tired and cold, half-naked, and caked with mud and t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 1:41pm mrmdc

CNN -- Georgia authorities Wednesday were searching for two young women, possibly teenagers, who robbed a supermarket bank branch, laughing as they held up a teller with nothing but sunglasses to disguise their faces. The two handed a Bank of America branch t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 3:48pm mrmdc

CNN -- Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 12:07pm neoform

Daily Mail -- A man who was fed up with paying massive bank charges decided to give one of the high street giants a taste of its own medicine... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 19, 2006 @ 12:26am neoform

Washington Post -- Immigrant workers are sending more money than ever to their families in Latin America, but two new studies show that only a small portion of the billions of dollars directed there has gone to economic development... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 5, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Two guards were killed and a third wounded Thursday in the robbery of an armored vehicle outside a Wachovia Bank branch in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police said. Police were looking for one suspect, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson sai.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

CNN -- Authorities disabled and blew up a device used Tuesday in a bizarre bank robbery in Hollywood, Florida. The device had been strapped to a man who told police two armed men had abducted him earlier in the day from his house in nearby Dania Beach. He said t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 14, 2007 @ 8:10am neoform

SF Gate -- It's the fee everybody loves to hate, and it's going up - the little ding to your wallet when you use an ATM at a bank where you're not a regular customer. Bank of America is leading the way, pushing up its ATM charge for noncustomers to $3 from $2 at.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 5, 2007 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- Bruce Eisner tromped past a half-dozen geese lolling in the water, marched across the muddy shoreline and stopped on the grassy bank of the Upper Truckee River. It was a brilliant warm day at Lake Tahoe, the forested mountains rising spectacularly all.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- Two young men held up a bank Monday just after it opened and shot two employees before fleeing, police said. The suspects, believed to be in their late teens or early 20s, appeared to have been wearing masks. They produced a handgun inside a Chase bank.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 12:58pm neoform

FOX News -- Nearly four years after a bank robbery ended with a pizza deliveryman being killed by a bomb locked around his neck, authorities said for the first time they believe he helped plan the heist. Brian Wells, 46, told police before the bomb killed him in A.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 16, 2007 @ 1:15am neoform

FOX News -- Police are looking for a bank robber whose claim to fame is his dirt-like smell. They are calling the man who has robbed three banks in Southern California since April the "Landscape Bandit" because of his appalling odor, the Daily Breeze reported... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 4:49pm neoform

BBC News -- A major US bank is reportedly getting a huge subsidy to relocate its offices near the World Trade Center site. The New York Times reports that JP Morgan Chase will receive hundreds of millions of dollars to build a 42-story skyscraper in downtown Manha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 6:09pm neoform

USA Today -- City officials approved a plan Monday to offer illegal immigrants identification cards that would let them open bank accounts and use other services that may be unavailable without driver's licenses or state-issued IDs. Supporters say the program, appr.. Read More