WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Truliant FCU said it awarded 12 scholarships for a total of $15,000 through the Carolinas CU Foundation scholarship program.

LEOMINSTER, Mass. – Leominster CU broke ground this week on a three-story, 28,500 expansion of its headquarters in the downtown.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Tyndall FCU said it plans to build two new branches to serve residents of Alabama’s Houston County, after being approved by NCUA to expand its field of membership across the state border.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Meriwest CU has developed a special program aimed at helping troubled homeowners and other borrowers navigate their way financial restructuring.

PHOENIX – Arizona FCU, which reported a credit union-record $115.9 loss last year, said it plans to shutter two more branches, both of them in Tucson.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University Employees FCU announced a deal yesterday to provide loans to international graduate and professional students at Harvard University.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The NCUA Board is expected next week to extend its temporary guarantee on all corporate credit union deposits beyond the current Dec. 31, 2010 expiration date.

WALL STREET – Moody’s Investors Service yesterday downgraded four corporate credit unions which saw their capital in U.S. Central FCU wiped out by last month’s failure of the central bank for credit unions.

LONGMONT, Colo. – In what may be considered speedy justice, a man who helped in the getaway of a robber at Elevations CU on Feb. 4 was sentenced Friday to three years in prison.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Kemba Delta FCU has successfully deployed Banker’s Academy Unlimited for Credit Unions online training suite from Edcomm Banker’s Academy.

FAIRFAX, Va. – Apple FCU opened a new branch, its fourth over the past year, in the Kingstowne section of Alexandria.

WILLISTON, Vt. – New England FCU announced the winners of three $3,000 nursing scholarships.

PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia FCU said it plans to install Integrated Media Management’s new Universal Document Presentment version of TotaleAtlas document management system.

ATLANTA – Delta Community CU said it has installed Verint Systems’ Nextiva NetDVR II and MicroDVR II data surveillance and capture solutions.

DALLAS – Texans CU, struggling with large losses, announced yesterday that Michael Sauer, who has been serving as interim CEO since January’s departure of David Addison, has been hired as permanent president and CEO of the $1.7 billion credit union.

WASHINGTON – The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund awarded 27 organizations, including three credit unions, almost $2.4 million of technical assistance grants.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The former president of General CU was charged this week with creating phony loans that helped him embezzle as much as $1.6 million from the credit union.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Members of the NCUA Board have agreed to answer questions from readers of Credit Union Journal on any of the issues facing credit unions.

CUDAHY, Wis. – The former president of Prime Financial CU, taken over by state regulators in February, is seeking almost $3 million from Guardian CU for breach of contract related to the failed merger of the two institutions.

LEXINGTON, N.C. – Two men were arrested after authorities said they were caught trying to break into an SECU ATM on Sunday morning.