SALT LAKE CITY – Officials of America First CU on Tuesday delivered shoes to 170 children at Lakeview Elementary in Roy, as part of its annual "Warm the Soles" campaign.

ROME, N.Y. – AmeriCU CU hopes to collect winter clothes to keep as many as 2,000 area families warm this winter through its Mitten Challenge.

WICHITA, Kan. – Lawmakers worried about expansive credit unions plan to look at clarifying standards for field of membership for state chartered credit unions.

HEWITT, Texas – A 16-year-old high school student who allegedly robbed Rocket FCU was speedily arrested Wednesday afternoon.

MADISON, Wis. – The Filene Research Institute weighed in on the ongoing debate over credit union capital levels with a new study asserting that credit unions are holding too much capital.

EL PASO, Texas – A year of budgeting, paying off debt and overall belt tightening paid off Tuesday for two families who were awarded $10,000 each as winners of GECU’s "Savers Challenge."

TULSA, Okla. – A paper airplane against the backdrop of modern planes taking off from Tinker Air Force Base–in steel sculpture–will greet members of Tinker FCU, part of the 60th anniversary celebration for Oklahoma’s largest credit union.

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. – CU Partner Solutions LLC, a CUSO representing seven local credit unions, yesterday announced it has signed to offer CUSO Financial Services LP’s online consortium program to its member credit unions.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – Fiserv yesterday said it has completed its $4.4 billion acquisition of electronic payments giant CheckFree Corp.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – CO-OP Financial Services announced it has moved its anti-fraud center and its 20 analysts in-house.

LANCASTER, S.C. – Founders FCU yesterday announced it has started its own insurance agency, which will offer members life, accidental death and health coverage.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – In one of the largest credit union scholarship programs, IU CU said it will grant $32,000 in scholarships for the 2009-2009 school year, including the annual $20,000 to returning students at Indiana University or Ivy Tech Community College after a break in their education of two or more consecutive years.

TULAHOMA, Tenn. – Ascend FCU said it will pay a bonus dividend to members of approximately $5 million this month.

WASHINGTON – NAFCU yesterday called on leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject a bill that would allow bankruptcy court judges for the first time to restructure the terms of mortgages through the Chapter 13 process.

HAVERHILL, Mass. – Executives at Northeast Community CU and Haverhill Bank are working with regulators to get the go-ahead for their unusual merger, which some see as by-passing the normal member disclosure procedure for credit unions converting to mutual savings banks.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Charlotte Metro Credit Union has begun a unique advertising campaign that allows for human interaction. Time Warner Cable customers with specially enabled cable boxes can participate in a campaign that tests interactive television advertising.

HOUSTON – Motorists around the city were scratching their heads at last month’s appearance of billboards reading “Banks Hate Us,” with numerous candidates for banks to hate.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – One or more dumb robbers yanked a Spartan FCU ATM out of its moorings last week but probably won’t get far. That’s because they left behind a vehicle tag from Maryland and police are hot on their trail.

FRESNO, Calif. – Educational Employees CU said it named Elizabeth Dooley, the deputy commissioner of the state’s Department of Financial Institution and head of credit union supervision, as its new president and CEO.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Federal credit unions cannot replace third-party collateral protection insurance and private mortgage insurance with their own internal programs, according to NCUA.