TALLAHASSEE – The clean break Brandon Warren apparently wants from Florida State isn’t going to happen, at least not for the time being. FSU coach Bobby Bowden on Tuesday denied Warren’s request to be released from his scholarship, meaning Warren will have to pay his own way if he transfers to the University of Tennessee [...]

The Rotary International World Peace Fellowship, which culminates in a master’s degree, is now available for the academic years 2009 – 2011 at one of five universities in England, Japan, Australia, Thailand or Argentina.
Applicants should have a bachelor’s baccalaureate degree and the training and background to gain admission to a graduate program at one of [...]

Applications are being accepted for the annual Si Burick Journalism Scholarship.
The scholarship, now in its 20th year, is named for Si Burick, legendary Dayton Daily News sports writer and editor for 58 years who also was a WHIO radio and TV personality.
Burick wrote his first sports story for the Daily News when he was 16, [...]

Four Malden banks have committed $8 million to a loan pool for a first- and second-time homebuyer program run by the Malden Redevelopment Authority.
Eastern Bank, Century Bank, Central Bank, and BankMalden each pledged $2 million to fund the program over the next two years.
The loan pool will make below-market-rate loans to low- and moderate-income home [...]

Applications are available to high school seniors who wish to apply for participation in the Evelyn K. Titus Memorial Scholarship program.
Evelyn K. Titus, a long-time resident of Warren County, died in 1992. In her will, she directed the proceeds from her estate be used to provide two scholarships annually, one male and one female. Applicants [...]

A new website – GraffitiPad.com – is selling Internet advertising spots to fund college scholarships.
The New Year is a time of reflection, resolution, and celebration; but it also invites stress, psychological depression, consumer debt, and end-of-the-holiday disillusionment and cynicism. Psychiatrists recommend that individuals maximize the momentum felt at the fresh start of the year by [...]

More than 5,200 students at Kansas State University are academic scholarship recipients for the 2006-2007 school year. Students are listed by their hometown.
Butler County
Andover: Austin Garrett Delimont, $1,460 Barbe Family Scholarship; Megan Ann Enns, $525 A. Sidney McIntire Memorial Scholarship and $725 Richard L. Clarke Scholarship; Bradley Warren Fouse, $240 G.E. Johnson Engineering Scholarship and [...]

Readington Township resident Matthew Melchionda excelled at every aspect of training at the Somerset County Police Academy.
The Watchung Police officer understood the importance of education and graduated with the best of his class.
Watchung Police Capt. Sean Whelan believes Melchionda, who died in the line of duty, would be pleased to know a [...]

A scholarship in memory of a student killed in a motorcycle earlier this year could benefit students at Cape Fear Community College.
Wilmington Police Sergeant Warren Kennedy presented a check for more than $4,000 to the president at Cape Fear Community College.
Kennedy raised the money by coordinating a motorcycle ride in memory of Clint Robertson.

This year, more New York college students are expected to study abroad than ever before. Research from the Institute of International Education in New York shows that the number of American students taking advantage of international study programs for college credit has more than doubled in the last decade.
In the Northeast, New York ranks highest [...]