SPOKANE, Wash. – Thieves are using a new method to steal card information – gluing the cancel button on ATM transactions.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Real-estate developer Vincent Garcia on Friday was sentenced to 27 months in prison for siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from member business loans obtained from First Financial CU and a Topeka, Kan., bank for personal use.

MADISON, Wis. – CUNA Mutual Group and its employees union, the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 39, have reached an agreement on a new three-year labor deal that will give the Union’s 700 Madison-based workers 3% raises for each of the years, as well as ratification bonuses.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The 67-year-old former manager at Adams Municipal Employees FCU was sentenced yesterday to a day in prison and six months home confinement for stealing $160,000 from the $1 million credit union located in City Hall.

RICHARDSON, Texas –NCUA reported today Texans CU had first quarter net income of $5.2 million, but even with five straight quarters of profitability the one-time $2 billion credit union run by NCUA the past two years still has a $15 million hole.

LAYTON, Utah. – A member of America First CU was charged with theft after he transferred $25,000 from his account the credit union erroneously deposited in it.

DALEVILLE, Ala. – Army Aviation Center FCU announced the death of Roger Turnquist, a volunteer at the credit union the last 35 years until his passing at 99.

ATLANTA – Credit bureau Equifax reported a 41% increase in first quarter net income to $101.1 million, as sales rose strongly in most of its segments.

WICHITA, Kan. – Meritrust Credit Union has selected ForeScout Technologies’ CounterACT network access control system.

LA HABRA, Calif. – American First CU yesterday said it named Jon Shigematsu, its chief financial officer, the new president and CEO of the $510-million credit union.

WASHINGTON – Mortgage rates fell for the fourth straight week, with the average for the 15-year loan dipping to a new low, according to Freddie Mac.

HOUSTON – Members of StarTrust FCU, the former Enron employees’ credit union, voted overwhelmingly to merge the ailing $52-million credit union into InvestTex CU.

DULUTH, Ga. – NCR on Thursday said it is offering an advanced anti-skimming technology that provides financial institutions with a proactive way to address today’s ATM skimming challenges and deliver maximum availability and convenience to their members and customers.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – CO-OP Financial services has teamed with Ondot Systems of San Jose, Calif., to provide credit unions with a CO-OP-branded service that enables members to use their smart phones to exercise greater control over their card usage.

RALEIGH, N.C. – State Employees’ CU has signed with Wincor Nixdorf to provide a variety of multi-vendor software solutions to manage its 1,100 cash machines, the biggest fleet of any credit union.

WASHINGTON – Mortgage lenders received welcome news in the form of clarifications and changes to the voluminous new mortgage rules released in January by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

WICHITA, Kan. – Credit Union of America is using an untraditional video of dressed-up credit union employees – and even a board member – doing the latest Internet dance craze, the “Harlem Shake.”

LAS VEGAS – Troubled Silver State Schools CU reported a $1.2 million net for the first quarter today, compared to a $3.5 million loss for the first quarter last year, even as it expended all of its own reserves.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Credit unions around the country are once again reporting big gains in the first quarter, many of them benefiting from excess loan loss reserves still overhanging from the financial crisis which they are sending straight to their bottom lines, according to Financial Performance Reports submitted to NCUA this week.

PASADENA, Calif. – Wescom CU announced this morning its Wescom Resources Group CUSO is now offering credit unions a new member service and marketing platform that reviews various streams of credit union data to manage and deliver marketing campaigns across multiple online and offline outlets.