Credit Union Liquidity Services, a CUSO of Texans CU, is not now nor has it ever been in bankruptcy.

OMAHA, Neb. – A 31-year-old local man was sentenced to 100 months in prison for five armed robberies, including last January’s holdup at Telco CU in nearby Council Bluffs, Iowa.

WILLISTON, N.D. – Western Cooperative CU has pledged a $50,000 donation to the Mercy Medical Center capital campaign, which is raising funds for a cancer center.

CHICAGO – A team of 20 Alliant CU employees pulled a 99-ton UPS Airbus aircraft 20 feet at O’Hare International Airport as part of the 2010 Plane Pull to benefit Special Olympics Illinois.

RALEIGH, N.C. – At a time when credit unions are struggling to attract people to their annual meetings, a luncheon and educational sessions helped North Carolina State Employees’ CU draw more than 1,000 members to its annual meeting in Greensboro last week.

HOUSTON – Smart Financial CU last week filed suit against Open Solutions Inc., claiming the company installed software at the credit union that allowed a member who had lost his line of credit to allegedly borrow $130,000.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – ORNL FCU has agreed to finance the purchase and renovation of a historic Market Square building, known as the Kern Building, home of the Hotel St. Oliver.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – State regulators approved a request from Power Financial CU to expand into Florida’s Keys, a 160-mile string of connected islands south of Miami.

BATON ROUGE, La. – Pelican State CU is building a full service branch on the first floor of E. A. Conway Medical Center in nearby Monroe.

ATLANTA – Delta Community CU said more than 10,000 members have signed on to its mobile banking service, provided by Fiserv.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU members now can use a newly launched virtual assistant, “Ask BECU,” at the credit union’s website, to find information by simply entering questions in their own words – just as though they were interacting with an actual BECU representative.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – On Jan. 17, 1917, the Credit Union League of Massachusetts helped create the first Credit Union Day in the U.S., with the date selected because it was the birthday of the Father of Thrift, Benjamin Franklin.

LAS VEGAS – Branches are evolving as consumers’ desires and expectations are changing, but despite reports to the contrary branches are still important to consumers.

WASHINGTON – CUNA on Wednesday said it spent more than $480,000 on elections activities last month – the vast majority on campaign contributions – as the final days of the mid-term elections approach.

DALLAS – A judge’s ruling in a suit challenging patent rights for Check 21 technology could bring Bank of America and other major defendants in the case to the negotiating table, just as an additional trial in the case commences.

WASHINGTON – Fannie Mae on Wednesday filed suit against several insurers, including Great American Financial Resources Inc. and The Travelers Cos., claiming they are responsible for losses on the $131 million Fannie Mae paid for fraudulent mortgage loans it bought from U.S. Mortgage Corp. and its CU National Mortgage subsidiary.

RESTON, Va. – Student loan giant Sallie Mae, which is in the midst of another restructuring after student loan legislation that changed the market, on Tuesday reported that net mark-to-market losses on its hedging caused a $495 million loss for its fiscal third quarter, compared to a $159 million net for the same quarter last year.

KENNEWICK, Wash. – In one of the more ambitious moves in student-run branches in recent years, Gesa CU has opened new branches in three local high schools.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU has rolled out a new mobile banking application by Forethorn Holdings LLC, a unit of Qualcomm Inc.

JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi FCU has implemented Jack Henry & Associates’ Windows-based, .NET-architected Cruise core processing platform provided by its Symitar division.