PORTLAND, Ore. – OnPoint Community CU has notified customers that a laptop that may have contained customer names and their account numbers was stolen Oct. 29.

FAIRBORN, Ohio – Five families are participating in an eight-month contest to see which one can best improve their spending and savings habits and work towards family goals of boosting savings, reducing debt and increasing net worth, as part of Wright-Patt CU’s Savings Race.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – The combination of the state’s ninth and 10th largest credit unions, T&C FCU and USA CU, took place last week to create the state’s fourth largest credit union with more than $1.2 billion in assets.

INDIANAPOLIS, Iowa – Community Choice CU said yesterday it will give $5,000 to kids during Saturday’s grand opening of its new branch in Ankeny.

FRAZIER, Penn. – A story in the Nov. 6 Credit Union Journal Daily Briefing about the delay in the pilot program for the secure credit union payment card Xcard misstated several aspects of the card.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA has signed with Learn.com to automate its training curriculum with on-demand software, the company announced yesterday.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – State Department FCU said it has deployed mortgage loan fulfillment and hosted web-origination site provided by LenderLive.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Twentieth Century Fox FCU said it has begun marketing GPS/Asset Protection Devices from DMC/Celevoke to credit unions and their members nationwide.

CHICAGO – The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago last week introduced a new program to buy loans from its bank and credit union members.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – U.S. New Mexico FCU said yesterday it has signed a multi-year contract with TNB Card Services to convert its 12,000 credit card accounts to the company’s processing platform.

MT. LAUREL, N.J. – PHH Corp., which operates the largest mortgage bank for credit unions, reported yesterday that third quarter losses more than doubled to $84 million, or $1.56 a share.

WASHINGTON – Secondary mortgage market giant Fannie Mae, operating under federal conservatorship since September, reported a $29 billion loss for the third quarter, bringing year-to-date losses to a staggering $34.5 billion.

PHOENIX – Desert Schools FCU said yesterday it will join the millions of stores and shoppers starting their Christmas shopping at the crack of dawn the day after Thanksgiving by opening its 25 Wal-Mart branches at 5 am.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Six credit unions received almost $83 million in new deposits from the state Treasurer’s Office over the past week under a plan to infuse as much as $1 billion into Illinois banks and credit unions.

SAN DIEGO – Mission FCU said Friday it has donated $15,000 to the Sweetwater Union High School District to support the district’s attendance incentive campaign.

RACINE, Wis. – Educators CU announced Friday it has donated 33 computers to the Racine Unified School District to replace computers that were stolen from several schools earlier this fall.

TULSA, Okla. – A former assistant manager of the Mayes County FCU in Pryor pleaded guilty last week to embezzling more than $1.6 million from the $28 million credit union.

LANCASTER, Penn. – Lancaster Red Rose CU opened a new branch last week to serve the city’s growing Hispanic population in the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.

TAMPA, Fla. – In another sign of the economic crisis, Evangelical Christian CU, one of the biggest church lenders in the country, filed foreclosure papers last week on Without Walls International Church.

NILES, Mich. – Greater Niles Community FCU is talking turkey to its members this Thanksgiving; giving away hundreds of the frozen birds for this year’s holiday feast.