SAN FRANCISCO – A teller who helped mastermind the $74,000 robbery of Metro 1 CU in Antioch was sentenced yesterday to five years in federal prison.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri credit unions have raised $100,000 to build house a wounded soldier as part of the Home for Our Troops program, which has built more than 50 specially adapted homes for severely injured service men and women across the country.

HORSHAM, Penn. – Gateway Funding Diversified Mortgage Services, L.P., said it has launched a Correspondent Lending Division, buying loans from credit unions and others lenders in the Mid-Atlantic States.

PURCHASE, N.Y. – MasterCard announced a new bill payer service yesterday.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Employees FCU has rolled out a limited-edition Drew Brees credit card, featuring the star of last year’s Super Bowl who played his college football at Purdue University.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA said yesterday it barred from the industry Christine McLamb, the 73-year-old former loan director at Health Facilities FCU, after she was convicted last year of a $1 million theft from the Florence, S.C., credit union.

TALAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Commerce CU has chosen nine families to compete in its 2nd annual weLiveFit $10,000 savings challenge.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU, formerly known as Boeing Employees CU, is the first credit union to deploy NCR APTRA Vision, the company's latest enterprise software solution for self-service system management.

MASON CITY, Iowa – North Iowa CU was granted a judgment for foreclosure against an Elks Lodge and the Elks building will be sold at a sheriff’s sale later this summer.

MILLBURY, Ohio – Woodco CU expects to be operating out of nearby CanDo CU today or tomorrow after its offices in the local high school were destroyed by the weekend's tornado.

COLUMBUS, Ind. – A state court yesterday ordered the former River House, a prominent hotel in downtown Evansville that reopened recently under a different name, to pay more than $4.1 million to Centra CU, which filed a foreclosure law suit against it in December.

COLUMBIA, Md. – The Maryland & DC CU Association launched the latest round of its cooperative WhatsinItForMe? ad campaign with radio and metro bus spots, a new website and Facebook page.

SEATTLE – A short film documenting last September’s “Kites Over Washington” viral ad featuring 131 man-sized kites representing each of the state’s credit unions won a regional Emmy award in the special event category.

MADISON, Wis. – Summit CU announced today that Andy Faust is retiring as CEO and will be succeeded by Kim Sponem as head of the $1.5 billion credit union, Wisconsin’s largest.

COLUMBIA, Md. — The 2010 phase of the cooperative ad campaign being sponsored by the Maryland & DC Credit Union Association has debuted with a "WhatsInItForMe?" Facebook page and other social media, in addition to raio and metro bus ads.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – Fiserv announced yesterday it is purchasing AdviceAmerica, a provider of integrated advisor solutions to financial institutions and independent advisors.

MONETT, Mo. – Jack Henry & Associates said yesterday it has closed its acquisition of iPay technologies, a provider of electronic bill payment services, for $300 million in cash.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Bellco Community CU is introducing a new branch in Gettysburg today.

SAGINAW, Mich. – Wildfire CU expanded its presence by opening a new high tech branch here yesterday.

HOUSTON – Members Choice CU is now offering its members Kasasa rewards-based checking and savings accounts.