Ebates offers 13 percent cash back from over 100 stores

Here's your chance to save an extra chunk of change on smartphone and tablet accessories, multimedia software, a Netflix subscription, and more. Originally posted at Marketplace Blog

Navy program helps recruits get FIT to ship out

CHICAGO – Mason Hawks came to Naval Station Great Lakes in January for eight weeks of basic training. Thirteen weeks later, long after the rest of his division had graduated, he was still there, unable to get over a hurdle that stymies hundreds of recruits each year: He couldn’t run 1 1/2 miles fast enough.

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BOSTON - A firefighter who claimed Pittsfield officials bypassed him for promotion because he missed work for military duty will be getting a bump in rank.

VA-Born Man Wins Banking Battle Against BOA

ABC News  reports on a  Virginia-born man (now residing in California), who utilized local media to pressure Bank of America into honoring a promotion he signed up for over 40 years ago: free checking for life.

Alan MacLeese, popular Flint Journal columnist, remembered for 'unleashed' life

Alan MacLeese wrote his "MacLeese Unleashed" column in the 1970s and as a truly unforgettable character: a gambler, a story-teller, a cat-lover, a Navy veteran and a survivor of a hard-drinking era of journalism. He died late last month at his home in Jonesport, Maine.