GROVE CITY — Virginia Moore, director of communications at Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV, earned the Distinguished Service Award at the Pennsylvania Association of Federal Programs Coordinators conference at Seven Springs.

Moore has used her artistic and writing talents to design each conference brochure and PAFPC newsletter for nearly 20 years.

Since 1989, Moore worked as the director of communications service at the intermediate unit in Grove City. She is a supporter of aspiring student artists in Western Pennsylvania. She coordinates the annual Summer Visual and Performing Arts Academy that brings together high school students for a 12-day program of study in creative writing, dance, jazz, theater and visual arts on the Slippery Rock University campus.

Moore organizes the Very Special Arts Program to recognize the abilities of students with special needs through an art exhibit at Grove City College. This spring marked the 20th year for the event. She is also the managing director of the Midwestern Arts and Humanities Foundation.

Moore is a 1976 graduate of Westminster College and the mother of three children, Melisa, Matthew, and David.

Butler Memorial Hospital's Women's Imaging Center in Butler has been featured at a national conference of breast care centers.The imaging center was discussed for integrating digital mammography into its existing Picture Archiving Communication system, allowing doctors to view images from the Internet.The conference, the 2009 National Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference in Las Vegas, was sponsored by the National Consortium of Breast Centers of Warsaw, Ind.

WASHINGTON — The federal seizure of struggling Florida thrift BankUnited FSB is expected to cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. $4.9 billion, representing the second-largest hit to the FDIC's insurance fund since the financial crisis began felling banks last year.The costliest was last year's seizure of California lender IndyMac Bank, on which the bank insurance fund is estimated to have lost $10.7 billion.The Office of Thrift Supervision, a Treasury Department agency, said Thursday that BankUnited FSB reported $1.2 billion in losses last year as defaults on loans piled up. The thrift "was critically undercapitalized and in an unsafe condition to conduct business," the agency said in a statement.