ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – State Employees CU is offering auto borrowers a chance to win a $15,000 cash prize.

BRAINTREE, Mass. – Liberty Bay CU has one way for drivers to beat the high cost of gas – it is giving away one free tank of gas to anyone who visits the local Sunoco station between noon and 1 p.m. on Friday.

WAREHAM, Mass. – In what may be considered a credit union exec’s dream, Digital FCU won Wednesday’s auction for Bay Pointe Country Club and its 19-hole golf course.

DORAL, Fla. – Brazilian ATM manufacturer Itautec has introduced the world’s first 3D image projecting ATM, which it is selling to credit unions.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA has scheduled a special meeting for next Wednesday when its Board is expected to approve a voluntary corporate bailout assessment program.

WILMINGTON, Del. – Global technology vendor Serverside Group filed suit in federal court this morning claiming dozens of credit union groups and banks are infringing on its patents for card customization technology.

PIERRE, S.D. – Minnesota’s TCF Bank asked a federal appeals court yesterday to order the Federal Reserve to provide the court with an advanced copy of the Fed’s final debit rule to be voted next week, in order to help the court deliberate over the bank’s suit to stop the rule.

MOULTRIE, Ga. – The former manager of he Colquitt County Teachers CU was accused of stealing $50,000 from the institution.

MECHANICSBURG, Penn. – Members 1st FCU was mourning the death of Martin Ripson, its former manager who served the past 22 years there as a Notary Public and in charge of the Senior Citizens Corner, at 89.

TOLEDO, Ohio – Four credit unions and seven banks are working together in this hard-hit Rustbelt city’s Bank on Toledo program, aimed at getting the unbanked into mainstream financial services.

WASHINGTON – CSC Employees FCU, which serves Computer Sciences Corp., has signed with COMPASS 4 CUs to provide compliance services.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – KEMBA Financial CU has gone live to its members with Jwaala’s Better Online Banking platform, called Better Online Banking, or BOB.

ST. LOUIS – Anheuser-Busch Employees' CU has implemented NCR’s APTRA eMarketing cross-channel marketing software, delivering personalized marketing to members online and in e-mail.

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. – TopLine FCU said yesterday it joined the MoneyPass surcharge-free ATM network.

MINOT, N.D. – As record floodwaters head this way, one credit union closed its office and others are moving to higher ground, including inside the facilities of other credit unions. At least one CEO is preparing to likely lose her home.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA said yesterday it approved an application from Webster First FCU in western Massachusetts’ Worcester to acquire Saugus FCU, a troubled $60 million credit union all the way across the Bay State in Boston’s northern suburbs.

BROOKLINE, Mass. – Medical Area FCU said its Sit and Save Program, which refinances loans made at other lenders, has saved members $300,000 since it was launched in April.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – In keeping to its nine-month-old projections of the cost of the corporate credit union stabilization program at $7 billion to $9 billion, some experts are wondering if the agency is vastly underestimating the costs for political reasons.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Dozens of credit unions are committing to participating in a proposal allowing them to prepay NCUA assessments for the corporate bailout, with most of them calling for an increase in the program from the $300 million proposed to at least $1 billion.

SUMTER, S.C. – A woman who apparently robbed a SAFE FCU branch Monday afternoon was arrested by police after her family tipped investigators off.