BOX ELDER, S.D. – Sentinel FCU supported a $120,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan bank of Des Moines that will partially fund an owner occupied rehab project in western South Dakota.

ATLANTA – Delta Community CU and its car-buying partner, Car Solutions, are teaming up to bring metro Atlanta residents a one-day car sale event on April 27, showcasing more than 300 new and used vehicles.

WICHITA, Kan. – One of two federal judges scheduled to hear NCUA’s numerous suits against Wall Street banks over the corporate credit union failures has disqualified himself because of a potential conflict of interest in the cases.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. – Great Lakes CU on Friday announced it is acquiring new branches in Naperville and Bolingbrook with the merger of Hawthorne CU, an ailing, one-time $160-million credit union.

WASHINGTON – More than 15,000 runners on Sunday participated in the 41st running of the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run here among the capital’s monuments and blooming cherry trees.

NEWARK, N.J. – The former CEO of Polish & Slavic FCU is in talks to settle claims he was fired a year ago because he refused to discriminate in hiring on behalf of people of Polish ethnicity.

MADISON, Wis. – CUNA Mutual Group has extended the terms of a recently expired four-year labor deal a third time, through April 10, as negotiations heat up.

WASHINGTON – Members of Congress will square off against world class runners Sunday in the annual Cherry Blossom 10-Mile Run through the streets of the Capital.

OKLAHOMA CITY – An automobile dealer was sentenced yesterday to 16 months in prison for bank fraud and ordered to pay Municipal Employees CU $200,800 restitution for a scheme in which he used the same cars on his lot to collateralize loans from the credit union and another lender.

NEW YORK – A federal court here yesterday ordered Standard & Poor’s to produce all records related to $72 million of failed mortgage-backed securities CUNA Mutual Group bought from RBS Securities and any documents that may show the Wall Street investment bank’s alleged efforts to coerce or pressure the rating agency into providing high ratings on the doomed MBS.

FERNDALE, Mich. – William (Bill) Coyne, former board chairman and director of $775-million Credit Union ONE from 1989 to 2009, died March 28 at 78.

HERNDON, Va. – Northwest FCU is the first financial institution to connect Akcelerant’s Framework loan system with Grant & Weber’s system, allowing the credit union to check the status of loans that have been turned over to Grant & Weber for collection.

BREMERTON, Wash. – Kitsap CU said it has signed with Jack Henry & Associates to convert to Episys in-house core processing provided by its Symitar subsidiary.

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. – United Nations FCU has implemented SS&C Technologies Holdings’ CAMRA into its investment accounting reporting mix.

MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. – Listerhill CU is replacing all campus identification cards at the University of North Alabama with a “one-card” that also can act as a credit union debit/ATM card.

PONTIAC, Mich. – Genisys CU rolled out its mobile banking app for Android devices, with the assistance of Ann Arbor-based Logic Solutions.

WASHINGTON – Mortgage rates fell this week, in reaction to news of slower growth in the economy, according to Freddie Mac.

MANKATO, Minn. – At least one area credit union is reporting its members are being fooled by a telephone scam apparently coming from Romania asking area people to disclose their debit card information.

WICHITA, Kan. – A suspect who died during a shootout with a deputy after a Wednesday robbery at Credit Union of America actually took his own life, according to authorities.

WARRENVILLE, Ill. -- Members of $1.4 billion CenCorp CU voted overwhelmingly today in favor of the proposed merger with $1.4 billion Alloya Corporate FCU, the eighth corporate merger in the last two years but first since last October.