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DALLAS -- Nearly two years after three former Texans Commercial Capital executives filed a lawsuit against the Texans Credit Union CUSO for defamation, a Dallas County jury ruled yesterday that the plaintiffs were wrongly terminated.

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas -- A total of 232 credit union employees have now received grants totaling $111,077 from the Texas Credit Union Foundation's disaster relief fund as the result of Hurricane Ike, foundation officials reported Tuesday.

STAMFORD, Conn. -- A survey of consumer intent has signaled that this year's holiday season could see a rare dip in the demand for gift cards among consumers.

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- CUNA's Homes for Our Troops charity venture, spawned this summer at the Presidential conventions to support wounded veterans of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars, is on track for a Missouri expansion with two new homes to be built by credit unions.

WASHINGTON -- Home prices fell 5.6% in July from the same period last year, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight announced today.

WASHINGTON -- Saying it was vital to restore confidence in the financial markets and the overall economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson took their efforts to sell the $700 billion plan to buy illiquid assets from financial institutions to Capitol Hill today.