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Woman robs Sky Bank in Alliance
February 5, 2006 ALLIANCE - The FBI and police are looking for a young woman they say robbed a Sky Bank in the city Saturday. And they’re hoping someone will identify her from images of her they’ve released that were recorded by the bank’s surveillance camera. According to an FBI statement, this is what happened: Around noon, the woman entered the Sky Bank at 1230 W. State St. through its front doors and gave a teller a note demanding money. She threatened to use a weapon, but bank staff never saw a weapon. The teller gave her money — the FBI declined to say how much. The robber departed through the front doors, ran through the parking lot and went south on Center Avenue, where she jumped into a late-model, full-size pickup with extended cab, which was pulling a flat-bed utility trailer. Witnesses last saw the vehicle going south on Center. No one was hurt. The FBI described her as a white woman, about 20 to 25 years old, about 5-feet-4-inches tall, weighing about 175 pounds with a pale complexion. She was wearing a red jacket, blue stocking cap, black nylon pants with white stripes, white tennis shoes and dark gloves. The FBI is asking anyone with information to call the FBI’s Canton office at (330) 456-6200 or Alliance police at (330) 823-5715.
What are people saying about mortgages today: Rates on 30-year mortgages edged down last week to a seven-month low. Mortgage-giant Freddie Mac reported Thursday that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages fell to 6.3 percent, down slightly from 6.31 percent two weeks ago. It put rates at the lowest level since they were at 6.24 percent the first week of March. Bank of Hawaii, Central Pacific Bank, Territorial Savings Bank and Wells Fargo Home Mortgages all cut their 30-year mortgage rates to 5.75 percent this week. Most people think of a mortgage as a means to an end. After all, you buy a house, not a home loan. But a mortgage is much more than the path to homeownership. It is a financial instrument that must be managed, just like any other financial investment.
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