DUNEDIN, Fla. – Fast-growing Achieva CU is scheduled to break ground this morning on a $10 million, 67,000-square-foot headquarters project near its old Clearwater offices.

SAN DIEGO – Mitek Systems, Inc., which is in a major court battle with USAA over the patent to mobile remote deposit capture, filed suit yesterday against Top Image Systems, saying the Israeli firm is selling a knock-off version of its mobile RDC.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU is sending out a prototype short-form credit card agreement for the fourth quarter as part of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s project aimed at shortening consumer credit card contracts.

BETHPAGE, N.Y. -- Bethpage FCU, New York’s largest credit union, announced this morning it is partnering with Long Island Press, one of the nation’s largest weekly newspapers, for the award-winning Best Of Long Island competition, naming best restaurants, best beaches, and best local brands, among other things.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Despite last week’s announcement that members of $1.6-billion Technology Credit Union overwhelmingly rejected converting to a mutual savings bank charter, the legal fight is far from over as a court hearing was postponed yet again.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU’s 20th annual 5K Run/Walk on Sept. 15 raised $20,000 for the Committee for Helping Others, a local charity that provides food and clothing to area families in need.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Altra FCU is making the Banzai financial literacy program available to the area’s elementary and middle school students by offering it to local teachers for free.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – St. Mary’s CU announced that Allora Ristorante and Catering of Marlborough is the credit union’s “We Love Local Contest” Business Spotlight for the month of September.

TIFFIN, Ohio – Tiffin St. Joseph FCU has hired Rick Budde, head of lending at nearby Hancock FCU, president and CEO of the $46-million credit union.

SALT LAKE CITY – University First FCU has implemented the integrated platform of Mortgagebot’s Enterprise end-to-end lending platform.

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Stanford FCU has implemented Open Solutions Inc.’s DNA core processing platform.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Truliant FCU yesterday said it hired Todd Hall, a Florida financial consultant and former banker, as chief operating officer for the $1.6-billion credit union.

TAMPA, Fla. – Suncoast Schools FCU has opened four middle and elementary in-school branches in Hillsborough, Citrus and Collier counties, including FishHawk Creek Elementary School in Lithia.

HAMPTON, Va. – Authorities are hunting for a man convicted with three others of a 2008 armed robbery of a Navy FCU branch who escaped prison Tuesday just three weeks after beginning a 14-year sentence.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University Employees CU rolled out a new MasterCard rewards card last week for the Harvard Alumni Association that offers benefits uniquely designed for the Ivy League grads.

KINGSTON, N.Y. – Mid-Hudson Valley FCU, the former IBM employees’ credit union, announced this morning that Wayne Winkler, its chief lending officer, was named president and CEO of the $750 million credit union.

STOCKTON, Calif. – Police are looking for two men wearing wigs and beanies who they said robbed a Premier Community CU branch Tuesday morning.

KALISPELL, Mont. – Just days after a local mortgage broker denied federal charges of bank and wire fraud connected with a Whitefish CU loan, prosecutors moved to dismiss the charges.

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. – Teachers FCU, New York’s second-biggest credit union with more than $4 billion in assets, will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a fireworks display on Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Pennysaver Amphitheater.

ONTARIO, Calif. – The California/Nevada CU League, which recent terminated several longtime executives as part of a reorganization, has filled several of those vacancies, some with former credit union CEOs.