KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Considering hard economic times in Michigan, the head of a Kalamazoo crisis center Monday expressed both "surprise and gratitude" to a group of area credit unions for extending a $2,500 grant to his agency that wound up administering services to CU employees after a spate of robberies.

WASHINGTON -- The House and Senate are scheduled to vote today on the legislation ironed out over the weekend to create a $700 billion fund to buy illiquid assets from financial institutions, including credit unions.

WASHINGTON -- The House and Senate are scheduled to vote today on the legislation ironed out over the weekend to create a $700 billion fund to buy illiquid assets from financial institutions, including credit unions.

WASHINGTON -- The government will have more money to lend to credit unions as a result of an increase in the cap on the Central Liquidity Facility approved by Congress over the weekend.