U.S. Bank is bumping up overdraft fees for all its accounts beginning June 29, the Minneapolis-based bank confirmed Wednesday. The bank's new $35 overdraft fee brings it in line with the country's biggest financial institutions, including Bank of America, Huffington Post reports. Bank officials note that the 15 million-customer bank is eliminating one other fee and lowering yet another.

A dip in foreclosures in 2011 may be an aberration. One expert says lenders just fell behind in processing them and are likely to work through the backlog during 2012.

Ruth Murman's bank denied a two week extension on her home's foreclosure. KARE 11 says OccupyMN organizers circulated the story and filed a petition - within two hours Murman's bank granted the extension.

The home belonging to Twin Cities pianist Lorie Line and her husband, Tim Line, is in foreclosure, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal reported. The publication obtained records on the pending sheriff's sale on the Orono home from Hennepin County. The Lines reportedly owe $2.05 million on the house.

MPR reports one in every 336 homes was in default, repossession or scheduled for auction in the third quarter of this year. That could be a sign of more foreclosures to come.

The Pioneer Press reports the owners of JT's Hamburgers failed to pay property taxes and provide the bank copies of financial documents. The 1950s restaurant will be sold at a sheriff's sale if the owners aren't able to come up with $142,000.

Despite a drop in foreclosures in the Twin Cities last year, 2012 will not likely be the year that the housing crisis winds down. The Star Tribune reports that a moratorium on processing new foreclosures has ended, which will likely increase the number of local foreclosures processed in the coming year.