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If you're a Bank of America customer, add another five bucks to your monthly bills. "Yeah, (how's) it work out?  About 60-dollars a year just for the privilege of leaving them your money in their bank,” Wichitan Sam Tyree said. Starting next year, BOA will charge five dollars a month when you use your debit card at stores.  It doesn't matter if you hit "debit" or "credit" at the register.  However, you will not be charged if you just use an ATM. "But if you go to QuikTrip and you're filling up and you use your debit card, it looks like, even once that month, you're going to be charged that five-dollars,” Trust Investment Officer Michal Emory said.

More thefts from apartment complex mailboxes have residents changing the way they do things.  Eyewitness News has confirmed thieves have taken mail from mail-rooms in two different complexes on Wichita's northeast side, just down the road from each other.  Each attempt affected dozens, maybe hundreds, of residents. Residents at Eagle Rock Village are worried, not just about losing money but their identities as well.  They've had their mail boxes torn into twice in the last two weeks.  Now, less than a half mile down 37th Street, residents at The Remington apartments are facing the same concerns.

The Department of Aging warns customers their personal information may be in jeopardy.   Last week, a laptop computer, flash drive and paper files were stolen out of a locked vehicle used by an employee in Wichita. The social security numbers of 100 people have been stolen.  Those people are part of the Senior Care Act program.  The Department of Aging says it's tried to call those 100 people directly on the phone. 7,000 other seniors are at risk.  Their social security numbers were not stolen, but other personal information was taken.  Those seniors are participants in the Older American Act program including Meals on Wheels.  This group will receive a letter from the Department of Aging.

By Brian Heap (WICHITA, Kan.) Talk of tax refunds and economic stimulus are the driving force behind the latest IRS related scams on the internet. An e-mail circulating titled "Making Work Pay" features an IRS logo and claims you are entitled to a tax credit as part of the federal government's economic stimulus package.  The e-mail asks for personal information before the check can be sent.  Such a tax break does exist, but IRS officials said the money was not being sent in a lump sum. "What we called the recovery rebate credit actually was coming in your paychecks.

Kansas State Treasurer Ron Estes will be sponsoring a Money$mart Financial Management Camp Wednesday, May 11 at Prairie Hills Middle School in Hutchinson.   Estes says "One of the biggest advantages we can provide our children is a basic education in finances,This outreach educates students on responsible use of a credit card, saving, budgeting, and cash management. "   Money$mart is a financial management camp created in partnership with the Wheatbelt Chapter of Credit Unions, Wichita State University Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)

The Ellsworth Police Chief is asking for help to try and find two runaways.  16-year-old Connor Creech and 13-year-old Katelyn McKinney ran away Monday.  They are driving a relative's vehicle.  It's a white 2 door 1198 Saturn with a Kansas 30 day temporary tag. The teens were last seen at Wichita Towne West mall Monday night.  They also attempted to uses a credit card Tuesday morning near Central and Ridge Road. The police chief says he doesn't believe they are in extreme danger but they've exhausted all other leads to find the teens.  He says they left a note saying they were going to runaway together.  He says they've also deleted their Facebook pages and email accounts.

The Reno County Sheriff's Department credits an observant deputy and good investigation for nabbing three suspects in connection with several car burglaries in the Homefield Housing Addition south of 4th & Obee.  Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson says deputies were able to identify two suspects in a stolen credit card case based on surveillance video from two stores.  That led officers to a home in the 300 block of W. 12th Street in Hutchinson...

Hiding in plain sight, a camera recording people without their knowledge or consent. Police are trying to figure out who put a hidden camera in the changing room of the north YMCA. It was hidden inside a clothing hook.. "Someone bumped into it and if fell off and discovered it was a camera," said Lt. Randy Reynolds of the Wichita Police Department. When it comes to surveillance cameras, you might see cameras in or around businesses, but then, there are cameras that you don't see. "You can enclose these in anything, such as a close hanger or a pen," said Nicholas Holt of Digital Age Security and Surveillance in Wichita.

KWCH Eyewitness News & CBS News You may have seen the ads all over the Internet.  They promise you'll make thousands of dollars, working from home for the Internet search company Google. Marvin Schultz - an unemployed contractor in Oregon - thought it sounded like a good idea. "I saw Google, and I heard about it from my daughter so I thought what the heck," Schultz says. Schultz says he paid $0.99 for some materials that he never received and says he was then billed almost $50 on his credit card.

Her husband and uncle are ready to go Hog wild at the Cotton Bowl next month.  But Melissa Houston has had some trouble securing tickets for them to see their beloved sixth-ranked Arkansas football team play #8 Kansas State in Arlington, Texas. "He was just ecstatic and now we had to call and say well, there's a problem," said Houston.  The problem was the tickets Houston thought she had purchased through the official Cotton Bowl Ticket Exchange had apparently been given to someone else.  Shortly after making the purchase, Houston received an email from Ticket Exchange that read: We are currently in communication with the seller and verifying the availability of the tickets in your order.