JOPLIN, Mo.-Cindy Atteberry may move into her new home in time for Christmas, but it will never replace what she lost when tornadoes devastated this town last May.

LOS ANGELES-Bank Transfer Day may have been a success, but Kristen Christian, the event's founder, isn't rushing to back any of its imitators.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA this afternoon banned a former teller at West Virginia’s N&W Poca Division FCU from the credit union industry for her role in a family fraud that drained as much as $5 million from the tiny credit union.

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco FCU said this morning it signed a deal with Walgreens to allow its members surcharge-free usage of cash dispensing ATMs in 500 Walgreens locations and the placement of 20 ATMs with the credit union's brand throughout San Francisco.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Genisys CU has installed 11 new Diebold Deposit Automation ATMs, allowing members and non-members the ability of depositing checks and cash without using an envelope.

RICHMOND, Va. – Henrico FCU was granted a broad community expansion by NCUA yesterday that will allow the $120 million credit union to serve more than 1.2 million residents surrounding the state’s capitol, one of the biggest community charters approved by NCUA this year.

WESTBURY, N.Y. – Nassau Educators FCU has signed with cuautocoupons Inc. to offer the start-ups auto coupons to its members.

MANSFIELD, Texas -- Texas Trust CU ended its Together We Can Feed More campaign with donation of $28,715 and 11,417 pounds of food to the North Texas Food Bank.

MADISON, Wis.-- Three credit unions have collectively donated $1 million to underwrite BizKid$, the credit union-backed TV series on money management that airs on PBS.

VERNON HILLS, Ill. – Baxter CU has completed the acquisition of Target CU, the $62 million credit union for employees of the department store giant.

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. – United Nations FCU has selected TRC Interactive to provide its staff with web-based training via its TellerSolutionsOnline.

JOHNSTON, Iowa – Community Choice CU said yesterday it signed a ten-year, $2.5 million deal for naming rights to the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines.

WASHINGTON -- Fixed mortgage rates hit historic lows this week, with the 30-year home loan returning to its record low of 3.94%, amid troubling reports on the state of the housing market, according to Freddie Mac.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Two years after the credit union system was brought to its knees by the financial crisis, NCUA is reviewing the adequacy of emergency liquidity planning by credit unions.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA announced this afternoon it awarded CO-OP Financial Services, the credit union-owned payments company, the right to acquire the assets of U.S. Central’s Corporate Network eCom, the failed corporate’s online and mobile payments services.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Fast-growing Webster First FCU, which entered the Bay State’s north shore earlier this year with a deal for Saugus FCU, has agreed to acquire Winthrop FCU, its third merger of 2011, giving it a presence in the Boston market.

ALEXANDRA, Va. – NCUA proposed this morning to expand its rules governing loan participations—including the 10% “skin in the game” requirement—from the current federally chartered credit unions to cover all federally insured credit unions.

NEW LONDON, Conn. – A woman who robbed a local bank and a credit union seven days later this fall was sentenced Tuesday to 55 months behind bars.

NORCROSS, Ga. – Associated CU said its Associated CU Foundation donated $11,000 each to the Norcross Co-op Ministry and The Quinn House located in Lawrenceville.

HONOLULU -- Hawaii credit unions collected 46 tons of rice and $45,000 for their “Have a Rice Day," fundraiser for the Hawaii Food Bank.