First National Corporation

Norman Ross, for many years a fixture on Chicago TV and radio, was ubiquitous in the city's civic and cultural circles, serving as a member or officer with more than 100 organizations. Mr. Ross, 86, died of congestive heart failure Friday, Oct. 3, in his...

American Theater Company has hired Thomas Newberry as its new executive director; Newberry comes from the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. ATC also has added the Chicago premiere of Itamar Moses' "Celebrity Row" to its 2008-09 season, to be directed by...

NEWPORT BEACH -- First Heritage Bank of Newport Beach reopened today as Mutual of Omaha Bank after the Omaha bank agreed to acquire from the FDIC the deposits of the failed First National Bank of Nevada and its Newport Beach affiliate, the company...

Veteran local banker Charles W. Hall has retired as head of First National Bank of Central Florida after nearly a decade at the helm and a banking career of more than 35 years, the bank said this week. Hall joined the Winter Park-based bank in 1999 as...

SUSMA PATEL. . . 33, lawyer and new chief executive officer of Winter Park-based First National Bank of Central Florida. From a wealthy family in London, Patel has been the bank's top investor for a decade and its chairwoman since 2007. She talked with...

A lot has changed in Palmerton in the past 100 years. The New Jersey Zinc Co., once the largest producer of zinc in the United States and the town's largest employer, is gone. Instead of products, most of the area's industries now deliver information...

Federal banking regulators have ordered Mount Airy Casino Resort owner Louis DeNaples to step down as head of his bank, pending the outcome of criminal charges that he lied about knowing reputed mobsters. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...

On a take-home pay of $880 a month, the Rev. Joseph Sica amassed debts of $218,000. And he owed the vast bulk of the money -- $148,000 -- to a bank headed by his friend, Louis DeNaples, owner of Mount Airy Casino Resort. How Sica qualified for credit...

Beirut Forget getting behind on your payments. Maysa, a 31-year-old accountant, is making payments on her behind. For years the Beirut resident felt uncomfortable with her derriere. She tried dieting, exercise and weight-loss pills, to no avail. Then...

American idiot? Not so fast there, buddy First it was Dixie Chicks versus Toby Keith. Now it's Green Day versus The Killers. In an interview with the British music magazine Word, Killers singer Brandon Flowers revealed a patriotic streak when he slammed...

From The Times: April 4, 1930 Mary Pickford and Warner Baxter gave the outstanding performances in motion pictures during the year ending July 31, 1929. The awards were announced last night at the annual merit award banquet of the Academy of Motion...

I was a 14 years old at the time, finishing up a summer vacation before entering my freshman year at Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village, Conn. My father owned a neighborhood market, Dick's Market, at the intersection of Elm,...