BROOKLYN, Center, Minn. – City-County FCU said it added new checking accounts with its three-month ‘Drop the Bank’ campaign for young adults.

WHEELING, W.V. – The manager of defunct N&W Poca Division FCU and her two grown daughters were charged in a civil suit filed by NCUA last week with stealing as much as $5 million and bankrupting the tiny credit union last year.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Ten credit unions and banks have agreed to offer help to the state’s 69,000 public employees who paychecks may be delayed by an ongoing budget impasse.

WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department said it has approved two credit unions, Wescom Central CU and Technology CU, to its mortgage relief program.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – In an effort to preempt plans to bring credit unions under a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, NCUA Chairman Michael Fryzel yesterday proposed creating the agency’s own consumer protection office.

MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed a bill yesterday that would have allowed Educators CU to continue operating its controversial auto dealership.

HUNT VALLEY, Md. – Point Breeze CU granted $1,500 college scholarships to 12 high school seniors.

FAIRFAX, Va. – Apple FCU’s 8th annual Charity Golf Tournament raised $30,000 on the green for the American Cancer Society.

OLEAN, N.Y. – Olean Area FCU has contracted with TNB Card Services to provide processing for its $3.5 million card portfolio.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.– Patrick LaPine, the well-known chief lobbyist of the Michigan CU League who helped build the credit union lobby into a power in both Lansing and in Congress, was named yesterday to head the fledgling League of Southeastern CUs.

WARREN, Mich. – ABD FCU, the credit union for Chrysler employees, has signed with National Health Partners to market the company’s CARExpress membership programs to its members.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Golden 1 CU announced yesterday it will accept state-issued IOUs from members, which Gov. Schwarzenegger has proposed to pay state employees with as soon as this week if he cannot solve a budget impasse with lawmakers.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA awarded another five 1% loans from its Community Development Revolving Loan Fund last month, marking a spike in demand for the low-interest loans.

WASHINGTON – Nine community development credit unions were awarded more than $17 million in grants from the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund yesterday to use to expand lending and their branch networks.

BOSTON – Credit unions in a half-dozen states-particularly the so-called Sand States of California, Arizona, Nevada and Florida–may be sinking deeper and deeper, but many credit unions around the country are growing and even prospering their way through the recession, according to their volunteer directors.

PITTSBURGH – An iconic computer expert who once worked for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to detect weaknesses in their online systems pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than two million credit card accounts from financial institutions, including Pentagon FCU, and selling the information to wrack up some $86 million in fraudulent charges.

BOSTON – NCUA examiners are focusing increasing resources on verifying the adequacy of loan loss reserves for credit unions, as troubles are spreading to new areas of the credit union portfolio–even as credit unions have moved billions of additional dollars into Allowance for Loan Losses over the past two years.

AUSTIN, Texas – Velocity CU awarded $100,000 in college scholarships to seven students as part of its 16th annual scholarship awards.

DENVER – Colorado State Employees CU has purchased a former branch of Bank of the West for $960,000.

OLYMPIA, Wash. – TwinStar CU said it has implemented ESRI’s ArcGIS Business Analyst geographic information system software to assist in growing its network of branch and ATM locations.