Student Finances

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Rachel Yould is a former Rhodes scholar who took on a new identity under a federal program that helps rape and domestic violence victims hide from their tormentors.

MINNEAPOLIS - A company that guarantees federal student loans said Friday that personal data on about 3.3 million people nationwide has been stolen from its headquarters in Minnesota.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Who is Rachel Yould? Is she a victim of domestic violence or a schemer who took on two identities to get rich? Did the 37-year-old ex-beauty queen and academic scholar fraudulently use two Social Security numbers and two names to obtain more than $600,000 in student loans to enrich herself, as federal prosecutors maintain, or was she sexually abused as a child, raped as a young woman and forced into hiding with a new identity? That depends on whose side of the story you believe.