RALEIGH, N.C. – State Employees’ CU said its SECU Foundation has contributed $500,000 to benefit the NC Museum of History’s new Education Center.

PITTSBURGH – A man who served almost 15 years in prison for a string of violent bank robberies in 1994 now faces 25 years-to-life for allegedly shooting a teller during last week’s hold up at Westmoreland Community FCU before hiding in the woods overnight in subfreezing temperatures to elude authorities.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The World Council of CUs has created a relief fund and begun accepting donations following the devastating earthquake that may have killed as many as 100,000 in Haiti.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Early commenters on NCUA’s proposed corporate credit union rule are questioning the viability of the corporate network itself, which has reported billions of dollars of loses over the past two years.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – A City-County Employees CU teller has been arrested and charged with stealing $32,000 from the credit union’s cash drawers.

NORWOOD, Ohio – A man who tried to rob a Wright-Patt CU branch here yesterday bolted shirtless from the credit union after a tussle with an off-duty police officer and was arrested running down the street shortly afterward.

MASON CITY, Iowa – North Iowa Community CU has filed foreclosure papers on a troubled Elks Lodge.

SUITLAND, Md. – Andrews FCU’s newly renovated headquarters branch here features an expanded member service area, Internet cafe, flat-screen LCD television, coin counter and even a "Kid’s Zone" with toys and other activities.

VACAVILLE, Calif. – Travis CU said it will award 20 college scholarships worth $1,000 each this year.

SAN DIEGO – USA FCU announced yesterday it has signed with ClairMail to power its new mobile banking technology and services.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – AllSouth FCU said it will implement TEKchand’s ATMLive Manager Platform for managing content and electronic journals on both its legacy and Windows ATM deployments.

PHOENIX – Desert Schools FCU said yesterday it has signed with PayChoice to offer the company’s full-service payroll and employee management solutions for thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs in Arizona.

MOSS RIVER, Miss. – Singing River FCU said yesterday it has acquired Coastal Waters FCU, a failed one-time $7 million credit union in nearby Mobile, Ala.

HARTFORD, Conn. – A former bookkeeper for Meriden Franco-American FCU was sentenced to 51 months in jail yesterday for stealing almost $745,000 from the tiny credit union, which failed in 2008.

WASHINGTON – Three-term Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota announced his intention to seek the chair of the Senate Banking Committee next year, upon the retirement of current Chairman Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, if the Democrats hold control of the Senate.

TAYLOR, Mich. – First Catholic FCU has filed suit in federal court to terminate a mortgage servicing contract with CUSO Mortgage, which it claims has violated its servicing contract with the credit union by, among other things, failing to file Form 1098s with the Internal Revenue Service for its borrowers.

DALLAS – CEOs have not felt so glum about their credit unions’ finances and the economy, according to results of Southwest Corporate Federal Credit Union’s fourth quarter 2009 CU CEO Confidence Survey, which sunk to a new low.

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. – Two would-be robbers were captured after a street chase following their failed effort to enter East Hartford FCU, a credit union for police and firefighters, last Friday.

GEONA, Ill. – A man who broke into Illinois Community CU Friday night and stole $67,000 in cash turned himself in to police Saturday morning and all of the stolen cash was recovered.

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Twinstar CU has purchased an abandoned branch once occupied by First Independent Bank in the Van Mall here.