EUGENE, Ore.-SELCO Community CU has awarded 95 Mini-Grants of up to $250 to supplement funding to K-12 classrooms in the communities the credit union serves.

HAVERHILL, Mass.-Haverhill Bank said its president and chief operating officer, Peter DiBenedetto, is stepping down after successfully completing the first credit union merger with a bank in Massachusetts.

You should be reading this while wondering if it isn't time to have the wings adjusted in your flying car, debating over the dinner you'll be having delivered via a tube to your home, and curious over why those obsolete C, X and Q keys are still on your keyboard.

How a credit union addresses change can say a lot about its success. Are you like the kid who says, "That new rule makes the game better," or the one who throws the ball away and sulks home? Can you turn a challenge into an opportunity?

I am writing in response to the editorial by Raul Pickett, CEO of El Futuro Credit Union-"CRA Debate Could Be A True Test of CU Philosophy In Action."

SALT LAKE CITY – Four area credit unions provided 330 pairs of new shoes to need schoolchildren as part of their annual “Warm the Soles” holiday effort.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Fast-growing APCO Employees CU plans to open its first branch in the Tuscaloosa market.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia Laboratory FCU, the state’s biggest credit union, has opened its eighth branch and first in the town of Los Lunas.

HUDSON, N.Y. – The former president of Columbia-Greene FCU was arrested Friday and charged with stealing $26,000 from her credit union.

ST. GEORGE, Utah – Southwest Community FCU announced an agreement with Insuritas, Inc., to provide members with life, medical and a range of other insurance products.

WASHINGTON – Regulators seized six more banks Friday, including $12 billion AmTrust Bank in Cleveland, making a total of 130 bank failures in 2009.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Service CU joined local retailers in their day-after-Thanksgiving sale with a special 10% three-month CD and discounted loan sale.

AUGUSTA, Maine – Radio stations across the state will air more than 2,000 sixty-second spots touting Maine’s credit unions, as part of the year’s final push for the Maine CU League’s Awareness Campaign.

KEY WEST, Fla. – NCUA said over the weekend it is looking for a new manager for troubled Keys FCU after the departure of Bob Watson, who has headed the one-time $200 million credit union for more than a year.

NORFOLK, Va. – The man convicted of the contract killing of a naval officer at a Langley FCU ATM in 2007 is headed to death row.

WASHINGTON – As they contemplate a recapitalization of the corporate credit union network, executives, directors and members of the corporates are vexed by the $50 billion question surrounding the troubled mortgage assets held in the network.

MADISON, Wis. – CUNA Mutual Group’s CUMIS Insurance Society is asking a state court to declare that surety bonds held by 26 credit union victims of the $140 million fraud by U.S. Mortgage/CU National Mortgage Corp. do not cover an estimated $125 million of losses suffered by those credit unions.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Police believe they have ended the bank-robbery spree – from Riverside to Rialto – of a slight, purse-carrying man dressed in a wig and women's makeup.

CHICAGO – Alliant CU said it has signed on as a new user of Geezeo’s online consumer finance platform.

FITCHBURG, Mass. – IC FCU donated $5,000 to Community Health Connections Family Health Centers to help fund and host multiple H1N1 flu clinics.