HARRISBURG, Penn. – Mid-Atlantic Corporate FCU announced the creation of a new CUSO, which will offer benefits and insurance services to credit unions.

WORCESTER, Mass. – GFA FCU said it has acquired property here where it plans to tear down an old home and build its eighth branch.

MUSCOGEE, Okla. – Tulsa Teachers CU said it has purchased a former Citizens Security Bank & Trust branch, which it will convert to its own service center.

KINGSTON, N.Y. – Ulster FCU plans a grand opening of its new home next week, which will culminate with its annual meeting.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Pennsylvania lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bill that will allow the state to sell 47 acres of land in nearby Susquehanna Township owned by the state’s Department of Agriculture to Pennsylvania State Employees CU, where the credit union giant plans to build a new headquarters.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Coastal FCU yesterday announced it is now offering Interest on Lawyer's Trust Accounts, known as IOLTAs, a dividend-bearing general trust account for attorneys and law firms that handle money on behalf of their clients.

CHICAGO – The Center for Financial Services Innovation yesterday said it has awarded a $300,000 grant to the Filene Research Institute and the Boston-based Doorway to Dreams Fund to help expand a pilot Prize-Linked Savings program.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union has become the country's first credit union to formally swear off converting to a mutual savings bank by adopting a Members' Bill of Rights.

PORTLAND, Me. – Consumer activist Chellie Pingree bested Iraqi War hero Adam Cote in yesterday’s Democratic Primary for the state’s 1st House District, despite controversial support from CUNA.

MINNEAPOLIS – Fair Isaac & Co., the creator of the ubiquitous FICO credit score, said yesterday it has agreed to dismiss Equifax as a defendant in its antitrust lawsuit against VantageScore LLC in exchange for a deal to co-market each other’s credit scoring products and services.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU became the first credit union in the country to formally swear off converting to mutual savings bank by adopting a Members’ Bill of Rights, the credit union giant announced yesterday.

NORTH CANTON, Ohio – Diebold yesterday said it has partnered with VALID Systems to help credit unions and banks streamline check-cashing services for non-members/customers.

NEW YORK – Discover Financial Services is asking a federal court to order Visa and MasterCard to pay it $6 billion to settle an antitrust suit it brought two years ago.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The deadline for submitting nominations to Credit Union Journal’s Best Practices Awards is approaching swiftly.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – ORNL FCU is hosting a week-long series of a teen financial literacy courses it is calling “Camp Money Matters.”

FORT WORTH, Texas – Members of American Airlines FCU are invited to join a June 21 celebration of the airlines industry and tribute to long-time President John Tippets, who is retiring after 17 years with the credit union giant.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Industrial CU is expanding into the city’s popular Barkley Village with its seventh branch.

ALBANY, N.Y. – SEFCU, which has donated 157,000 trees to help rebuild the storm-ravaged neighborhoods of upstate New York, has raised the branch, so to speak, by pledging to give the state’s Arbor Day Foundation one tree to plant for each new member who joins the credit union this year.

FORT BENNING, Ga. – TIC FCU said it completed a $3 million renovation of its branch here using so-called “dialogue” design with upgraded technology.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – An armored guard fired several shots at a bike-riding bandit who tried to rob him while he was replenishing the ATMs outside of Charlotte CU yesterday, but the bandit escaped on his bike.