Bank of America Corp.

Bank official's boyfriend held in $565,500 robbery

2013-05-21 00:00:00

It seem like the perfect crime: Masked men snatch an assistant bank manager in her garage, strap a bomb to her and force the woman to rob her own East Los Angeles bank of $565,500. But now authorities allege that one of three men charged with last fall'...

Bank manager's boyfriend faked bomb vest, indictment says

2013-05-20 13:05:00

The boyfriend of an assistant bank manager arranged for her to strap on a fake� bomb so she would appear to be a hostage -- setting the stage for him to rob $565,000 from an East Los Angeles bank last year, according to a federal indictment unsealed...

Vin Scully is the true voice of Los Angeles

2013-05-14 00:00:00

My young colleague, Ben Welsh, who hails from Swisher, Iowa, by way of Columbia, Mo., and Washington, D.C., quickly caught on to what we native Angelenos know subliminally. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Scully: A May 14 Op-Ed about Vin Scully said...

BofA cuts 2 million customers loose

2013-05-14 00:00:00

It's long been a basic tenet of the business world: You give us more business, we'll reward your loyalty with better deals. That's how cable companies operate with their service packages. That's how phone companies work. And until now, that's pretty...

Price not a factor in choosing college, say most of L.A.'s wealthy

2013-05-13 08:14:00

Nearly two-thirds of wealthy Angelenos would allow their children to attend an expensive college, but half of parents refuse to go into debt to pay for it, according to a new survey. According to the study, 64% of the so-called “mass affluent,&...

Families reduced their debt load in first quarter to 2006 level

2013-05-14 09:55:00

WASHINGTON -- American families reduced their debt load in the first three months of the year by 1%, bringing it down to pre-recession levels after an uptick in the last quarter of 2012, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday. Outstanding household debt,...

Stock market rises back into record territory

2013-05-14 14:48:00

The stock market marched back into record territory as investors seized on the latest encouraging news about the economy. On Tuesday, it was a report on the health of small businesses. Small business owners were slightly more optimistic in April,...

New West will close season with the celebratory Beethoven's Ninth

2013-05-09 07:00:00

The Springs fire, which threatened Thousand Oaks last week, is over. Temperatures are down. We’ve had a sprinkling of rain. Roads are open. Destruction can be surveyed. Spirits need lifting. It’s time for Beethoven’s Ninth, the great...

BofA settles another mortgage lawsuit but is facing a new one

2013-05-07 00:00:00

NEW YORK — As Bank of America Corp. pulls itself free from a swamp of mortgage liabilities, new troubles keep threatening to suck it back under. BofA agreed to settle a big insurer's claims over faulty mortgage bonds for $1.7 billion Monday. But...

N.Y. to sue Wells Fargo, Bank of America over mortgage practices

2013-05-06 08:33:00

NEW YORK -- New York state's attorney general plans to sue Wells Fargo and Bank of America over alleged violations of a national mortgage settlement reached last year. Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman's office said Monday it intends to sue the banks for...

Mortgage settlement violations persist in California, group says

2013-05-06 10:34:00

NEW YORK -- Violations of a landmark mortgage settlement alleged by New York's attorney general are also widespread in California, a housing advocacy group says. “Banks aren’t doing what they’re supposed to be doing to help people stay...

A wife's Alzheimer's, a husband's obsession

2013-05-05 08:00:00

Ken Chiate is a born problem-solver, and in the summer of 1961, when he was on break from college, his problem was a head-turning blond named Jeannette. He was head lifeguard at a public pool in Phoenix, where his father owned a liquor store. She worked...

Demonstrators hold protest signs across the street from the Bank of America Corp. headquarters during the annual shareholders meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bank of America Corp.

2013-05-08 00:00:00

A photo from video surveillance of a man who robbed a Bank of America branch in Norridge.

2013-04-29 12:00:00

Where would you take someone to in Baltimore if A) you're trying to convince them to move here B) trying to give them a truly authentic experience and C) want to scare them away? I've been here 30 years and still struggle with that one. -- Dennis M.

2013-04-23 00:00:00