WASHINGTON — Regulators and lobbyists are racing to get a renewal of the temporary increase in an emergency loan fund for credit unions.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Police are hunting for a man they say robbed three area credit unions and a retail business since October.

TULSA, Okla. – NCUA said it has approved a request for Tulsa Federal Employees CU to convert to a federal charter.

GALENA PARK, Texas – Thomas McCullough, a retired educator who was there at the onset of United Community CU, announced his retirement after 40 years on the board.

CALUMET CITY, Ill. – Illiana Financial CU said it plans to introduce electronic banking, bill payment and mobile financial services in June through PM Systems Corp.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A man who disguised himself in bandages and a neck brace in a series of credit union and bank robberies in Riverside County may be under arrest, police announced yesterday.

SAN DIMAS, Calif.– Financial Service Centers Cooperative said yesterday it will pay a $1.1-million patronage refund to credit unions participating in its shared branch network for transactions performed during 2008.

PINE BROOK, N.J. – CU National Mortgage, the credit union subsidiary of U.S. Mortgage Corp., announced last week it is closing.

MADISON, Wis. – CUNA Mutual Group announced yesterday it will be offering Commercial Foreclosure Property and Liability insurance policy for credit unions’ member business loans through a partnership with Lee & Mason Financial Services.

NORWALK, Conn. – The Financial Accounting Standards Board, inundated with calls to reform its market value accounting rules, agreed yesterday to review its rule for determining the market value of assets in an illiquid market.

MESA, Ariz. – It took 26 years, but Kennewick, Wash., detectives believe they found their prey, a former credit union worker charged with absconding with $106,000 theft way back in 1983.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A man who held up Virginia Beach School CU armed with a semi-automatic weapon in the summer of 2006 and made off with $13,000 was sentenced yesterday to 38 years in federal prison.

HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. – Eeminder Inc. said it is now offering credit union customers of Open Solutions and Summit electronic notices to replace paper notices.

CONCORD, N.C. – Southern Select Community CU has opened a new branch inside a Call FCU branch here. The new branch is in the Concord Shopping Parkade.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU said yesterday it is setting aside $3.5 billion for loans which can be used to finance a new or used car purchase from any automaker.

EUGENE, Ore. – SELCO Community CU has deployed Q1 Labs’ new QRadar 6.2 network security management solution.

BETHPAGE, N.Y. – Bethpage FCU announced it is implementing Verint Systems’ Impact 360 for Retail Financial Services Workforce Management solution – which includes forecasting, scheduling and strategic planning functionality.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Truliant FCU said it has purchased Financial Industry Computer Systems’ residential loan origination system, Loan Producer to replace its existing loan origination system.

DANVILLE, Va. – Piedmont CU announced yesterday it has contracted with IDTELi to provide it with the company’s GUARDEDID keylogging protection for the credit union’s internal computers.

WASHINGTON – CUNA is lobbying policymakers for some kind of relief from fair value accounting rules, which have been cited by many as one of the major causes of the current financial crisis.