LOS ANGELES – In a ruling that could severely hamper NCUA’s recovery efforts in the corporate credit union bailout, a federal court yesterday tentatively dismissed some of NCUA’s $491 million of claims against Goldman Sachs & Co. on the grounds that they were filed too late.

FORSYTH, Mo. – A convicted credit union robber serving a 14-year-prsion sentence this week was charged with an unsolved murder that occurred 10 years ago.

WEST JORDAN, Utah – Mountain America CU awarded a total of $14,000 in grants to three local high schools during its inaugural DECA Financial Literacy Challenge.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Numerica CU plans to open two new branches by the end of next year, including one this year in the two-story former First National Bank Building downtown.

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – Langley FCU yesterday said it signed with Mortgage Cadence LLC to implement the company’s Symphony platform to support the credit union’s rapidly expanding mortgage program.

WASHINGTON – Mortgage rates climbed this week to their highest levels since last August, as stronger-than-expected employment growth drove up yields for the government securities that guide home loans, according to Freddie Mac.

TOPEKA, Kan. – A local businessman on Thursday pleaded guilty to writing more than 5,000 insufficient funds checks in a check kiting scheme that defrauded Educational CU and two Topeka banks.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – FIS on Thursday said it has completed the acquisition of mobile banking pioneer mFoundry.

WASHINGTON -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule today that would give it supervisory authority over certain nonbank student loan servicers, but a special carve-out will exempt all credit unions and student loans CUSOs.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The NCUA Board voted in closed meeting this morning to approve the combination of Alloya Corporate FCU with Michigan’s CenCorp CU, with the latest corporate merger creating one of the nation's largest corporates with more than $3 billion in assets.

SAN FRANCISCO – Better Branches Technology introduced a new way to measure lobby and teller interactions this morning that records every branch visit in real time, instead of by measuring transactions.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The NCUA Board approved a sprawling four-county charter this morning for CinFed FCU, which failed in its earlier bid for a much larger eight-county, three-state FOM covering more than two million people.

WILLISTON, Vt. – New England FCU contributed a check for $26,453, representing funds raised during the credit union’s annual Big Change Roundup, to Vermont Children’s Hospital.

POWELL, Wyo. – A Utah man who pleaded guilty to holding up credit unions and banks in four states after being arrested in North Dakota was sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison.

OLYMPIA, Wash. – State regulators said state chartered credit unions may establish an audit committee and substitute it for the mandated supervisory committee as long as it encompasses the same oversight functions as the traditional supervisory panel.

GARDENA, Calif. – Nikkei CU has converted to Share One’s NewSolutions data processing system.

FARMINGTON, Mich. – Chiropractic FCU has received approval from NCUA to expand into Michigan and serve chiropractors there.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A federal judge on Wednesday continued the sentencing hearing for one of two robbers in the 2008 armed holdup of $106,950 from Fort McClellan CU in Jacksonville, Fla.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California state Senate unanimously confirmed Teveia Barnes as commissioner of the state Department of Financial Institutions, an agency that regulates more than 300 state chartered credit unions and banks.

WASHINGTON – A petition calling on the White House to include “commitment to cooperative principles” among the criteria used when nominating someone for the NCUA Board has now gathered approximately 4,000 signatures.