EUGENE, Ore. – Northwest Community CU and Mid-Oregon CU announced last week they have called off plans to combine and create an $800 million credit union.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Pennsylvania State Employees CU plans to break ground later this month on a 239,000-square-foot headquarters building that will accommodate as many as 750 of the credit union giant’s employees.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. – Members of NASA FCU with direct deposit will receive their pay 24 hours early as part of the credit union’s new EarlyAccess Payroll.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Credit Union Journal has officially unveiled its iPad app.

RICHARDSON, Texas – CU Liquidity Services, the CUSO owned by Texans CU that is troubled by far-flung member business lending around the country, sold the DoubleTree Wilmington, a 217-room hotel in Wilmington, Del., last week for $12 million.

NEW ORLEANS – ASI FCU was awarded a $3 million grant Friday from the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions new program to help provide the low-income neighborhoods of New Orleans with access to affordable and nutritious food alternatives to junk food.

SAN DIMAS, Calif. – NCUA told members of WesCorp FCU Friday it plans to begin redeeming all of the corporate’s $3 billion in fixed-rate CDs Oct. 3, even as it works to maintain services at the remnants of the one-time $34 billion corporate.

ST. LOUIS – The pace is heating up on corporate mergers as the deadline for NCUA minimum capital standards approaches, with members of Missouri Corporate CU and Montana’s Treasure State Corporate CU approving the latest corporate merger.

SEATTLE – Members at BECU and hundreds of credit unions had their cards rejected at CO-OP Financial ATMs Friday as a result of a disruption in the system at processor Fidelity National Information Systems.

NORCROSS, Ga. – S1 Corp announced this morning it is terminating its merger agreement with Fundtech in the face of the better offer for the Israeli financial services provider, but won’t walk away cheaply, with Fundtech paying it an $11.9 million break-up fee for termination of the merger.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – A federal court yesterday dismissed a suit brought by members of New London Security FCU against NCUA to recover $4 million in denied deposit insurance payments, ruling members of the spectacular 2008 failure missed by just three weeks the deadline to file the suit.

LOS ANGELES – A robbery suspect believed to be the “Triple Threat Bandit” who hit two credit unions and one bank during a 90-minute spree last month, surrendered yesterday afternoon after leading police on an hour-long, high-speed chase through Los Angeles and Orange counties following another heist.

URBANDALE, Iowa – Urbandale CU has rolled out online, mobile, social and location-based payments solution Dwolla.

ESCANABA, Mich. – Delta County CU has deployed its first scanner to begin using CheckLogic Lite, remote merchant capture software from eDOC Innovations.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Tarrant County CU has signed with Institution Solutions to offer the company’s Hospital Accident Protection insurance to members.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Sunstate FCU has signed a single-source card processing contract with Vantiv.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Belvoir FCU, one of the defense credit unions expected to benefit from the Department of Defense’s Base Realignment and Closure procedure, has opened a branch in the DoD’s new BRAC Mark Center Building, which is on Fort Belvoir.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Unitus Community CU is the first credit union to offer its members card customization through Member Access Pacific’s new contract with Serverside Group.

WASHINGTON – Long-term mortgage rates continued to decline this week to their lowest levels on record, according to Freddie Mac.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – Fiserv has teamed with Integrated Media Management to integrate Teller Source Capture from Fiserv with Integrated Media’s Teller Item Capture solutions, allowing more credit unions to use the Teller Source Capture application from Fiserv to capture images and process transactions.