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Note 8 - Commitments and Off-Balance Sheet Risk (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2014
Disclosure Text Block Supplement [Abstract] |
Summary Of Contractual Amounts Of Financial Instruments With Off Balance Sheet Risk [Table Text Block] |
|  | March 31, |  |  | December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Commercial unused lines of credit |  | $ | 263,387,000 |  |  | $ | 257,937,000 |
Unused lines of credit secured by 1 – 4 family residential properties |  |  | 22,994,000 |  |  |  | 23,429,000 |
Credit card unused lines of credit |  |  | 8,929,000 |  |  |  | 9,013,000 |
Other consumer unused lines of credit |  |  | 4,819,000 |  |  |  | 5,695,000 |
Commitments to make loans |  |  | 200,374,000 |  |  |  | 58,799,000 |
Standby letters of credit |  |  | 19,379,000 |  |  |  | 19,670,000 |
|  | $ | 519,882,000 |  |  | $ | 374,543,000 |

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