LAKE JACKSON, Texas – Texas Dow Employees CU has completed the merger of Bluebonnet CU, one of two Houston credit unions it is acquiring.

DENVER – Public Service CU has added more than 900,000 residents in two northern Colorado counties to its field of membership.

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. – Financial Resources FCU has installed Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ ComplianceOne solution to help document its member business lending transactions.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Pacific Marine CU has implemented DocuSign’s integrated solution with MeridianLink for electronic account openings and loan applications.

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The brief failure of two air conditioning systems responsible for keeping a computer network in Summerville from overheating took Heritage Trust FCU’s ATMs offline Saturday morning.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – An internal report issued yesterday by NCUA said the agency’s examiners are negligent in enforcing supervisory agreements, resulting in the failure of numerous CAMEL 1 and CAMEL 2 credit unions over the past few years.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU, which has been aggressively cutting fees on its cards and mortgage programs over the past 12 months, on Tuesday said it is eliminating the foreign transaction fee from the remainder of its credit card programs currently available in its card portfolio.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska USA FCU is staffing up tonight and through the end of the week to handle as much as $280 million of new member funds passing through as part of the annual dividend from Alaska’s Permanent Fund.

DUBUQUE, Iowa – Dupaco Community CU announced this morning that its well-known president and CEO Bob Hoefer is retiring after 47 years with the credit union he built to almost $1 billionm, and will be succeeded by Joe Hearn, the credit union’s chief operating officer.

WILMINGTON, Del. – NCUA said this morning it approved a charter for Stepping Stones FCU, the first new credit union of the year, continuing a dearth of new charters.

DALLAS – The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas has introduced a new home modification grant program for veterans.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Securian Financial Group completed the purchase of Balboa Life Insurance Company and Balboa Life Insurance Company of New York from a subsidiary of Bank of America.

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Sunday’s Michigan State University FCU annual 5K Dinosaur Dash race raised $25,000 for the MSU Museum.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Unity One CU is opening a new student-run branch Friday at Fossil Ridge High School here.

EUCLID, Ohio – Eaton Family CU has received approval from state regulators to expand its field of membership to serve all 1.3 million residents of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland).

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – An alert-eyed teller saw a familiar face while she was out shopping last week – the face of the man who had robbed her at First Financial South CU the previous day.

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. – Financial Resources FCU has completed its first Patriot Express loan under the Small Business Administration’s pilot loan initiative aimed at helping veterans and members of the military community establish or expand small businesses.

LIVE OAK, Texas – Randolph-Brooks FCU said it is has increased incentives to use its debit card by paying members 15 cents cash back on every debit card purchase through the end of the year.

FORT MYERS, Fla. – A federal court denied a motion by NCUA to dismiss claims from real estate investors all over the country alleging they were duped by now-defunct Huron River Area FCU into buying speculative real estate plots in southwest Florida.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Technology CU has applied to NCUA to convert to a mutual savings bank, which, at $1.5 billion, would be the biggest ever credit union conversion to bank.