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When Pam Berns mailed a few checks to pay bills, she had no idea such a routine task would throw her small publishing business into chaos.

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Although check usage has declined in the last couple of decades, check fraud has risen sharply, creating a problem for banks — and customers trying to pay their bills.

When Pam Berns mailed a few checks to pay bills, she had no idea such a routine task would throw her small publishing business into chaos. One of the checks, which she put in a mailbox on a Lincoln Park street in Chicago, was later stolen and rewritten for $7,200 to someone named Mark Pratt. That drained her business bank account, which meant she couldn’t pay the printer, her monthly payroll taxes or her salespeople. Nearly two months later, Berns, 76, hasn’t recovered the stolen m...

Highlights from the most recent North Scott school board meeting.

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Students at Meadowgate Academy in Wisbech enjoyed a visit from the Mazda MX5 Owners Club.

Newspaper located in Hillsboro, Texas serving all of Hill County with news, events, weather, sports and more

Newspaper located in Hillsboro, Texas serving all of Hill County with news, events, weather, sports and more