NEW YORK – A video billboard touting the credit union difference was unveiled for millions of viewers in Times Square this morning and will run through CUNA’s annual America’s Credit Union Conference, being held in New York City June 30 through July 3.

A selection of images featuring credit unions’ efforts in their communities.

MANSFIELD, Mass. – The Sharon CU branch here on Friday was held up by an armed robber for the third time in four months.

HAZELWOOD, Mo. – Neighbors CU is donating $1 for every new “like” on its Facebook page to the Hazelwood Community Response Team, up to $2,500.

BATON ROUGE, La. – E FCU has signed with Fiserv to convert its core processing to the company’s XP2 solution.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – 3Rivers FCU on Friday said it will be closing its Van Wert, Ohio branch on June 15 because of declining membership, fewer branch transactions, and the growing trend by members to use online banking, mobile banking and ATMs.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – University of Virginia Community CU and the Local Energy Alliance Program are holding their second “Home Energy Makeover” contest, in which one homeowner will win a $10,000 toward making a home more energy efficient.

BRADENTON, Fla. – Manatee Community FCU has teamed with the Jaensch Immigration Law firm for a program that will allow immigrants to begin preparing for the costs of reform such as penalties and naturalization fees, according to a written statement.

WASHINGTON – Funding legislation approved by Congress last month will allow community development credit unions and other CDFIs to issue federally guaranteed bonds to finance a variety of development activities, helping to boost capital and lending capacity of the CDCUs.

AMARILLO, Texas – A former loan officer at Pampa Teachers FCU on Friday pleaded guilty to making false entries and loan manipulations in a scheme that stole almost $423,000 from the credit union over the two years she worked there.

WASHINGTON – After California’s Gary Miller was targeted for defeat by credit unions’ first Super PAC last year it was hard to imagine that Miller, who won an eighth congressional term anyway in the state’s new 31st House district, would be positioned to be the next credit union champion in Congress – as he was last week.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA shuttered tiny Shiloh of Alexandria FCU this evening, the fifth credit union failure of the year.

NEW YORK – Lawyers for some of the plaintiffs in the MasterCard/Visa case asked a federal court here yesterday for final approval of the landmark $7.2 billion deal and of $720 million in legal fees to be shared among some 60 law firms in the huge antitrust case.

PLANO, Texas – Catalyst Corporate FCU, the corporate credit union conglomerate constructed from four corporates—three of them failures—disclosed some of the details of last year’s purchase and assumption of the remnants of WesCorp FCU, the one-time $34 billion California failure.

MADISON, Wis. – A high school classmate recognized a man suspected of robbing a Summit CU branch, leading to an arrest.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Member credit unions of the Arkansas Credit Union League on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of the proposed Cornerstone Credit Union League, a single cooperative organization that would represent CUs in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

WASHINGTON – Mortgage rates tumbled for the second week in a row, falling to near all-time lows, according to Freddie Mac.

FORT MILL, S.C. – Sharonview FCU said John Carlson, its president and CEO the past 14 years, is retiring from the $1-billion credit union.

AMES, Iowa – Greater Iowa CU has signed with Fiserv to implement the company’s XP2 core processing platform.

NORWICH, Conn. – A 62-year-old grandmother was sentenced to probation after she confessed to stealing almost $21,000 from Connecticut Community CU from the credit union’s branch inside Foxwoods Resort Casino and gambling it away there.