SACO, Me. – PeoplesChoice CU has contributed almost $9,000 to nine York County food pantries.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Pro Fed CU said its long-time CEO Barbara Berghoff is stepping down, in preparation for her retirement at year-end, and will be succeeded by the credit union president Gregory Troutner.

McLEAN, Va. – Long-term mortgage rates slightly this week from their decades-lows, according to Freddie Mac.

NEW ORLEANS – Officials with community development credit union ASI FCU and other credit union representatives unveiled the Clifford N. Rosenthal Community Resource Center in the St. Claude neighborhood of the Upper Ninth Ward, which is being rebuilt with credit union assistance after being ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Members CU will be airing a commercial on local TV featuring one of the race cars in the Indianapolis 500 car race that it is sponsoring.

NEWARK, Ohio – Fiberglas FCU, which sought a presence on the city’s North End, opened up a two-story branch between Kroger and Kohl’s stores.

ATHENS, Ga. – A fleeing robber was captured just minutes after he held-up the Georgia FCU branch Monday afternoon.

MIRAMAR, Fla. – Eastern Financial Florida CU, the troubled credit union giant taken over by regulatoprs last week, said yesterday it raised almost $50,000 for charity during Monday’s Swing 4 the Kids charity golf tournament.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A member of Coastline FCU was arrested after she spent most of an erroneous $8,345 tax refund she received in her credit union account from the IRS.

ROCKVILLE, Md. – REALTORS FCU, the first exclusively web-based credit union, said it is now offering mortgage loans.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw says a bogus Web site that claimed to be operated by West Virginia State CU has been shut down.

CLEVELAND – Credit union leaders from across Ohio presented an $80,000 check to Children’s Miracle Network as a result of their fundraiser march to benefit Children’s Hospitals.

MADISON, Wis. – The long-simmering feud between state chartered credit unions and the Internal Revenue Service will finally come before a jury Monday at the opening of Community First CU’s challenge of the IRS’s calculation of unrelated business income taxes–or UBIT.

WASHINGTON – The Senate overwhelmingly passed the bill containing funding for the corporate credit union bailout yesterday but one major question emerges as the bill is sent over to the House for its concurrence: is it enough?

WASHINGTON – After five days of debate, the Senate voted passage this afternoon of a housing bill that will include several measures to allow NCUA to stretch out the costs of its corporate credit union bailout to as long as eight years.

WASHINGTON – After five days of debate, the Senate voted passage this afternoon of a housing bill that will include several measures to allow NCUA to stretch out the costs of its corporate credit union bailout to as long as eight years.

WASHINGTON – The Senate cleared almost 20 amendments to the corporate credit union bailout bill at the end of yesterday’s debate in preparation for a final vote on the bill this morning.

MONETT, Mo. – Jack Henry & Associates reported yesterday that revenues and net income declined for its fiscal third quarter, ended March 31.

NORTH CANTON, Ohio – ATM maker Diebold Inc. announced an 88% plunge in first quarter profits, due mostly to a $25 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over civil charges related to its accounting practices.

FIFE LAKE, Wash. – Police are searching for a man who used an acetylene cutting torch in an attempt to break into an ATM at Forest Area FCU late Sunday night or early Monday morning.