HARRISONBURG, Va. – Park View FCU said it has contracted with Connect Financial Software Solutions for its consumer suite of Internet and Mobile Banking.

LONGVIEW, Wash. – An employee of Cowlitz CU last week was charged with stealing $120,000 out of the vault to fuel an expensive gambling habit.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Three Rivers FCU plans to spend $15 million to expand and remodel its headquarters.

PHILADELPHIA – NCUA announced Sunday it liquidated People for People Community Development CU and assigned the remnants of the failed $1.3-million credit union to $1.4-billion TruMark Financial CU of Philadelphia.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Employees at Sterling United FCU were met with an unpleasant surprise last Thursday when they went to inspect a truck that had been repossessed by the credit union – the dead body of the owner who had borrowed from the credit union to purchase the vehicle.

LOS ANGELES – NCUA on Fridaytold a federal court a ruling earlier in the week in Massachusetts should support its billion-dollar lawsuits against two Wall Street banks for the sale of mortgage backed securities to failed corporate credit union giants, WesCorp FCU and U.S. Central FCU.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A brand-new resource to assist credit unions in growing and serving members is making its debut this week: CUllaborationNation.com.

RIVERSIDE, Calif.-The road to recovery has not been a pretty one for Altura Credit Union. But Mark Hawkins, its CEO, believes the worst of the problems are behind it.

NEW YORK-Banks appear to be recouping some of their debit interchange losses by boosting minimum balance requirements to avoid monthly checking fees.

LAS VEGAS-Call centers at credit unions are dealing with budget cutbacks at the same time increasing numbers of members are calling-or being called-about financial pressures of their own.

CLEARWATER, Fla.-At the average credit union, just 14% of members carry its credit card.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-First Financial CU says it is phasing out its traditional ATM cards in favor of debit/credit cards, one of the fall-outs of the Durbin amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-The fight to get the credit union's plastic to the top of members' wallets is heading to a new battleground: the mobile space.

PITTSBURGH-With Bank Transfer Day creating greater CU awareness, Omega FCU says now is the perfect time to get back into the credit card business.

LIVE OAK, Texas-Randolph-Brooks FCU considers itself the Southwest Airlines of financial institutions.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.-With a goal of contributing to better collaboration among credit unions, Credit Union Journal has launched CUllaborationNation.com.

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FRANKFORT, Ky.-After 35 years with Commonwealth Credit Union here, CEO Gary Wallace retired Dec. 31. He shares his thoughts in this Credit Union Journal Exit Interview.

PENFIELD, N.Y.-Henrietta FCU here has been merged into Family First FCU, but the absorbing CU is carrying on the tradition of personalized service by meeting with as many of Henrietta's 469 members as possible.

RALEIGH, N.C.-There's a lot of interest in Leap Year. And for credit unions, that can quite literally be the case.