R.I. to pick up ‘default fee’ on some student loans (Providence Business News)
WARWICK – The R.I. Higher Education Assistance Authority announced today that it will pay the Federal Default Fee on Stafford, Plus and Grad Plus student loans guaranteed and disbursed on or after July 1 of this year in cases where the lender does not pay the fee.

Student Loan Worries (Hartford Courant)
As Economy Struggles, Borrowing Might Get Harder The peak student lending season is not yet underway, but the ongoing credit crunch and troubled economic forecasts have college officials and other financial aid experts watching the student loan market closely.

Credit crisis goes to college (The Nashua Telegraph)
The credit crisis is spreading to college loans as more lenders drop out of the business. More than two dozen nonbank lenders have stopped making college loans and three large banks followed suit. ...

How To Shop For A University Loan (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Congratulations! Your child has just been accepted to Harvard or Haverford or Harvey Mudd. Now you have to pay the bills.

Stafford Pond cesspools must go (Sakonnet Times)
TIVERTON — Norbert Berube, 74, lives with his wife Pauline in a home on Old Stafford Road he built himself on just under an acre of land by Stafford Pond. He's lived there since the mid-1960s. Two cesspools serve their house but those days are numbered.

Site Search; (Express and Star)
Wolves striker Liam Hughes has returned to Molineux after a disappointing month’s loan with Steve Bull at Stafford Rangers.

Lack of funding leads colleges to cut amount of Perkins Loans (The Ohio University Post)
Around 100 Ohio University students will not receive low-interest federal loans because of a funding shortage of about $400,000.

Partnership loan no longer available to students (Simpsonian)
Due to the current national financial market triggered by sub-prime lending, Iowa Student Loan is lacking funds from private lending partners to provide Partnership Loans. As a result, ISL will not offer the option for the 2008-2009 school year for all Iowa students.

MOHELA may delay portion of scheduled payment to Missouri (The Kansas City Star)
CHESTERFIELD, Mo. | Missouri’s student loan authority will delay part of a scheduled payment toward the state’s college construction program because of financial losses and uncertainty over the credit market.

Colleges to put cards on table (The Republican)
It is that time of the year again. In the coming weeks, many colleges will start sending letters to students telling them what financial aid packages will be available to them.