CLEVELAND – A federal court on Friday rejected a bid by a tiny church here to recover $1.5 million it lost in 2010’s failure of St. Paul Croatian FCU from perpetrators of the massive credit union fraud and ruled that decision is up to NCUA, which itself is expecting to be left with $170 million in losses in the case.

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The children and teens on the Escambia 4-H County Council voted yesterday to sell the 240 acres at their 4-H Center to Navy FCU, clearing the decks for a major expansion of the credit union’s giant call center campus here.

BALTIMORE – Horsetail Technologies and Credit Union Journal have partnered to make an extraordinary offer that will result in one credit union receiving a $100,000 Extreme Network Makeover.

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. – Marine FCU raised $140,000 during its annual golf tournament that will be split evenly between Jacksonville USO and Hope for the Warriors.

STURGIS, S.D. – Northern Hills FCU said it got approval from NCUA to expand its community charter to include 100,000 residents of Pennington County.

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – Six suspects were arrested on charges they forged 10 checks that they then deposited into their own accounts at Nassau County Police FCU.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Spartanburg Regional FCU is paying it forward with employees directed to find someone who needs $50 and give it to them.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fidelity Information Services announced it has acquired ICS Risk Advisors and Memento, Inc., two firms in the risk, fraud and compliance market.

ROCKY HILL, Conn. – Nutmeg State FCU said it has launched mobile deposit capability by Ensenta over its MShift mobile banking platform.

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. – Bellco CU is teaming up with LiveWell Colorado on a two-year campaign to encourage Coloradans to maintain a healthy overall lifestyle – both physically and financially.

WASHINGTON – NAFCU is calling on congressional leaders to take up long-sought data security measures as part of a broader cyber security debate on Capitol Hill.

WEST COVINA, Calif. – A suspect in yesterday morning’s armed robbery at a First Financial CU branch led police on a high-speed chase around the San Gabriel Valley for almost an hour, before he was dragged out of his getaway car by a K-9 police dog in nearby Whittier.

DETROIT – Two more credit unions have settled ATM suits brought by a local retiree who has filed almost 40 suits against credit unions and banks under the Electronic Funds Transfer Act.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate's Democratic leadership has unexpectedly delayed consideration of a bill that would allow credit unions to expand their business lending, putting off a vote on the controversial measure for what could be several months.

University of San Francisco Federal Credit Union here says it has seen strong growth after launching a branding campaign with the help of its student advisory committee.

The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau put banks, credit unions and other lenders on notice last week that it is stepping up enforcement of anti-discrimination laws.

Loan growth is hardly keeping pace with surging membership growth through the first two months of 2012, according to an analysis released last week by CUNA Mutual.

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New data indicates that the surge credit unions reported in new members in the final quarter of 2011 has not only not abated, but appears to be increasing.

McGraw Hill Federal Credit Union has grown loans steadily throughout the recession-17% last year-by focusing on refis and aggressively mining member data for opportunities.