BURLINGTON, Mass. – MoneyAisle.com, a free, automated online reverse auction site for CDs and car loans, reported that the 100th credit union has signed on to the network to bid for consumers’ business.

DETROIT – A 16-member jury was seated yesterday morning for the death penalty trial of a man who shot to death an armed guard who was refilling ATMs at Dearborn FCU almost five years ago.

RESTON, Va. – Student loan giant Sallie Mae, battered by legislative reforms to the federal student loan program, is moving its corporate headquarters to Newark, Del., as part of a cost-cutting move.

ALBANY, N.Y. – School kids can earn cash this summer by reading books – $3 per book – as part of Capital Communication FCU’s Summer Reading Program.

WOODLAND, Calif. – Yolo FCU awarded $1,500 to Winters Friends of the Library as a result of its online giving program called "Give a Click."

WEST CHESTER, Penn. – Keystone FCU gave 21 high students $200 share certificates for their high performance as part of its third annual Shining Star awards.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Golden 1 CU and other area credit unions are reaching out, as they do every year around this time, to state employees who may see their pay reduced or held up as a result of the state’s budget stalemate.

MADISON, Wis. – Filene Research Institute has launched a study to determine the effects the impending interchange amendment in the bank reform bill on credit unions, who are lobbying Congress against the amendment.

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats are nearing the 60 votes necessary to overcome a Republican filibuster and pass the bank reform bill with the addition of one of two Democrats who voted against the bill the last time.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Credit unions are favoring NCUA’s proposal to deregulate payday lending but say the agency should drop proposed requirements that could make it tougher to qualify for the short-term, small amount loans.

CANTON, Mich. – Eight directors of Unified Communities FCU agreed to an unusual request – to get a pie in the face – if students at Haggerty Elementary School reached their goal of depositing $1,500.

FORT WORTH, Texas – American Airlines FCU presented the Children's Miracle Network with a $50,000 donation as a result of the 14th Annual American Airlines Federal Credit Union Golf Tournament, held in May at the Cowboys Golf Club in nearby Grapevine.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Polish & Slavic FCU awarded 298 students a total of $300,000 as part of the credit union’s 10th annual scholarship program.

MUNCIE, Ind. – WGE FCU has upgraded its compliance training from Edcomm Banker’s Academy to a comprehensive credit union training initiative.

SCRANTON, Penn. – Tobyhanna Army Depot FCU broke ground last week for a new home in the downtown area here.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Guardian CU has agreed to merge into it Comala CU, a nearby $62 million institution that has reported small losses over the past two years.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Mutual Savings CU, under regulatory conservatorship since last August, has shuttered two branches and laid off nine employees as part of its cost-cutting.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU said last week its PenFed Realty LLC has acquired Exit Slater Realtors in San Antonio to provide real estate services in the Texas market.

MANATEE, Fla. – GTE FCU, which held a $3.7 million mortgage on the property, bought back Bradenton Preparatory Academy’s west Bradenton campus at a foreclosure auction last week for $100.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Less than an hour after two masked and armed women held up an Air Academy FCU branch last Wednesday afternoon, police officers and FBI agents tracked the alleged robbers to a home where they arrested the suspects and recovered more than $2,500 – after an alert teller stuck a GPS device into the cash bag.