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A. , today announced shareholder approval of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated June 25, 2008, among Community Bankshares, Inc., CRB, and First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc., which provides for the merger of Community Bankshares, Inc. and CRB with and into First Citizens.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3037406015</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:30:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Provident to buy $42M in Chevy Chase deposits (AP)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081015/provident_bankshares_acquisition.html?.v=1</link><description>Provident Bankshares Corp., the parent company of Provident Bank, said Wednesday it has signed a deal to acquire $42 million in deposits from seven Chevy Chase Bank in-store branches in the Baltimore area.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/432611800</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:07:47 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Provident acquiring $42M in deposits from Chevy Chase Bank (at bizjournals.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/bizj/rss/SIG=12ebbk2v2/*http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/10/13/daily47.html?ana=yfcpc</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3127766544</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:15:17 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dow drops following news of retail slowdown (at bizjournals.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/bizj/rss/SIG=12cepc29e/*http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2008/10/13/daily30.html?ana=yfcpc</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/340559519</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:45:16 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Summit Financial Group Announces Second Half 2008 Semi-Annual Dividend (GlobeNewswire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/081015/152235.html</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/974909160</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:36:31 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Monarch Financial More Than Doubles 3rd Quarter Net Income and Reports Strong Profits (PR Newswire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081015/new101.html?.v=53</link><description>Monarch Financial Holdings, Inc. , the bank holding company for Monarch Bank, reported greatly improved third quarter net income and record year to date net income.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2117162719</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:29:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ECB Bancorp, Inc. 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