Laurel Capital Group Declares Quarterly Dividend

ALLISON PARK, Pa., April 13  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Laurel Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:LARL) today announced that at its Board of Directors meeting of April 13, 2006, a cash dividend of $.20 per share on the Company's common stock was declared.  The dividend is payable May 12, 2006 to stockholders of record April 28, 2006.  This is the 75th consecutive cash dividend paid by the Company since converting to a publicly held Company in 1987.

Laurel Capital Group, Inc., headquartered in Allison Park, PA, is the holding company for Laurel Savings Bank. Laurel Savings Bank is a 118-year- old, Pennsylvania-chartered, FDIC-insured savings bank with eight full-service offices located in Allegheny and Butler counties offering a wide variety of financial services and products to customers throughout the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

The Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission are available electronically on the Internet and can be found at http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm.

This news release may contain forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated due to a number of factors. Such factors include, but are not limited to, changes in interest rates which could affect net interest margins and net interest income, the possibility that increased demand or prices for the Company's financial services and products may not occur, changing economic and competitive conditions, technological developments, and other risks and uncertainties, including those detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

DATASOURCE: Laurel Capital Group, Inc.



CONTACT:  Edwin R. Maus, President, CEO, [phone], ext. 303, or

, or John A. Howard, Jr., Sr. Vice-President, CFO,

[phone], ext. 311, or  of Laurel Capital Group,

Inc.



Web site:  http://www.laurelsb.com/

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