PENSACOLA, Fla. – Pen Air FCU raised $25,0000 at its annual Pen Air FCU Membership Appreciation Golf Tournament to benefit the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society Golf Tournament.

RALEIGH, N.C. – State Employees CU said its SECU Foundation, which has been generously funding local hospices, has contributed $300,000 to the Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care project in the town of Dobson, N.C.

OREM, Utah – Family First FCU, which has been weighed down by large losses the past two years, said it has named Kent Moore, a long-time executive at Mountain America CU, to be its president and CEO.

ERIE, Penn. – Erie FCU said it has named Mary Beth Wilcher, its chief marketing officer, to be its next president and CEO.

MADISON, Wis. – UW CU has introduced a payday loan product which will give members in good standing access to a short-term loan without the traditional loan application process.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Exposure to U.S. Central FCU combined with charge-offs of mortgage-backed securities have forced more corporate credit unions to report big losses in recent days.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Three men–two of them cousins–pleaded guilty to a string of armored car hold-ups, one of them at Navy FCU, that netted them more than $360,000.

WASHINGTON – CUNA, which has been struggling with large losses, said yesterday it will furlough all employees for a week of unpaid leave and stop making matching 401(k) retirement account payments to help stem its declining financial situation.

Two Pennsylvania credit unions that lost their sprawling community charters in a court challenge last year have received new ones that are roughly half the initial size.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Intuit said yesterday it has agreed to acquire PayCycle Inc., a provider of online payroll services to more than 85,000 small businesses.

DENVER – A former teller at Colorado FCU pled guilty Monday to embezzling more than $24,000 from the credit union.

RICHMOND, Ind. – Thomas Harris, a long-time president of NATCO CU who was active in the credit union movement for more than 50 years, died at 84 Sunday, after a short illness.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Whatcom Educational CU said it donated $9,750 to several community groups as part of its Social Responsibility program.

MASSENA, N.Y. – SeaComm FCU has launched online training for employees through Edcomm Banker’s Academy.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Pennsylvania State Employees CU said yesterday it is offering all members a free download of Trusteer Rapport protection fo online businesses as an additional layer of security for online banking sessions.

PLANO, Texas – Fast-growing EDS CU has applied to state regulators to acquire troubled First America FCU in Santa Ana, creating a presence in southern California.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Credit Union 24 announced it has begun a pilot program with Acculynk to offer the company’s Internet PIN debit service to its member credit unions.

SAN DIMAS, Calif. – Financial Service Center Cooperative said yesterday it has agreed to provide settlement services to participants in the correspondent credit union program operated by the Information Technologies CU Association, upon the disbandment of the group.

DALLAS – Southwest Corporate FCU became the latest corporate credit union to restate its 2008 financials to show a big loss, this one of $624.3 million.

DEARBORN, Mich.– DFCU Financial CU, started by Ford employees, knows how to boost the local economy–having poured more than $50 million into its members’ pockets in bonus dividends the last three years–and this year they want to pay more.