Several hundred thousand dollars in charitable grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation may have been illegally diverted in several southern African nations, the Michigan-based foundation said today.

Six organizations have won grants to help pay for projects focusing on local history and heritage, the Ventura County Community Foundation announced last week.

PIERRE Eighty-five K-12 school districts are the recipients of grants totaling $548,000 from the South Dakota Department of Health to combat tobacco use. The funding is aimed at helping schools improve and promote tobacco control.

The United Way of Navarro County distributed grants worth $12,500 Friday to local charities that helped evacuees from Hurricane Ike.

CHARLESTON The Wildlife Resources Section of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources is accepting applications for grants that support research, conservation or education projects, according to WRS Chief Curtis I. Taylor.

San Jacinto County Tourism Council is pleased to announce the awarding of two tourism grants in San Jacinto County.

LEBANON The Boys & Girls Club of Lebanon has received grants for $10,000 from The Collins Foundation and $2,000 from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Trust.

National grants totalling more than $6 million dollars have been awarded to the State’s premier medical research facility, the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR), in support of a range of ground-breaking, world-first research projects.

The city of Milford received $12,000 in grants to study the city’s two most accident-prone intersections.

Ocean View Elementary School and Paulding Middle School students who walk or bike to school will be a little safer, thanks to a pair of state grants.

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