FORT WAYNE, Ind. – 3Rivers FCU has completed a 26,000-square-foot corporate office, which includes a renovated branch.

SAN FRANCISCO – NCUA on Tuesday filed an appeal of the July 13 ruling by a federal court in Los Angeles dismissing most of its $491 million in claims against Goldman Sachs for failed mortgage-backed securities the Wall Street bank sold to U.S. Central FCU and WesCorp FCU – one of a growing number of rulings unfavorable to NCUA related to corporate credit unions.

LAS VEGAS – Clark County CU reported $2.3 million in net income for its second quarter, the latest Nevada credit union to indicate a rebound in the state’s financial fortunes.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU reported this afternoon that net income for the first six months of the year rose 20% over the same period last year to a record $439 million.

DES MOINES – Police are looking for a motorist who stopped a picked up a bag of cash that had fallen out of the rear of an armored van that was leaving Community Choice CU downtown this morning.

They may comprise the greatest fighting force in the history of armed services, but today's U.S. military find themselves to be no different than their fellow Americans when it comes to Congress and the laws governing the federal budget.

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FAIRFAX, Va. – Apple FCU said this morning it signed with CUSO Financial Services LP to provide its 158,000 members with an investment and wealth management program.

LANCASTER, S.C. – Founders FCU announced this morning it has deployed Fiserv’s Corillian Online and Mobiliti to deliver online, mobile and tablet banking services.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A lucky member of Telhio CU won a trip for two to the Occidental Grand Xcaret Mexico Resort as part of the credit union’s Flight of the Butterflies promotion.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Tarrant County FCU has signed with TRC Interactive to implement the company’s online instruction through CreditUnionTrainingOnline for its credit union-wide training needs.

HOOVER, Ala. – Alabama Telco Credit Union has opened a new branch in Greystone in a former Superior Bank building.

BRISTOL, Conn. – Nutmeg State FCU opened a branch in a new Walmart Neighborhood Market, the first credit union in the area to have an in-store branch.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Heartland CU said Ed Gvazdinskas, who has worked with the credit union for 38 years, will retire as CEO of the $230-million credit union in February 2014.

HOUSTON – Promise Credit Union is partnering with Neighborhood Centers, Houston’s largest nonprofit, to offer the city’s 300,000 immigrants who are legal permanent residents “Citizenship Loans” that may be used to help them fund their naturalization applications, which can cost $700.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The clock is ticking on nominations and entries for Credit Union Journal’s 2013 Best Practices Awards, as the deadline is July 31.

LOS ANGELES – A former state Assemblyman was sentenced to a day in custody and three years of supervised release, including one year of home confinement with electronic monitoring, in connection with a scheme to claim that almost $200,000 in credit card transactions he conducted instead were conducted by someone who stole his identity.

TORONTO – Canada’s Competition Tribunal on Tuesday dismissed an antitrust case against Visa and MasterCard over rules that require merchants to accept credit cards with higher fees without imposing surcharges, another in a growing list of antitrust probes against the card networks.

TORONTO – Davis + Henderson Corp. has agreed to acquire Harland Financial Solutions, a leading provider of back-office solutions for credit unions, for $1.2 billion U.S. in cash.

WASHINGTON – A leading credit union expert told Congress this afternoon that credit unions and other community lenders should have a major role in creating and overseeing a proposed federally backed secondary mortgage market agency in the case of a wind down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.